and what do you think about contradictions between the two when believed by the same person, especially when people pick and choose what parts of each to believe like a fucking salad bar
If there is truth of the literal sort to religion, it is paranormal.
If religion is just a narrative structure, it is banal, and generally rather poorly written.
>>19421725
Of course it is paranormal. The only reason we do not commonly see it as such is due to the Catholic church's massive crusade to rid the world of any concept of something beyond the physical (that is not God.) Surprise on them, nowadays most don't even consider God (they think He is just religious, and do not recognize a Creator, a Source of our energy, of Light and Darkness and Love.)
The narrative structures of all religions hold metaphors and perversions of the Great Truth of our being and the cosmology that placed us here.
is bullshit
intersectionality is interesting
cell -> tissue -> organ -> organism = individual => group => society => ... ?
>inb4 format
This natural tendency of the universe is the Will of God. It is clear this Creator mandates for us to unify.
What if all of humanity stopped from all of this non-sense to simply hear God for one second ? Just use your imagination, what coud possibly happen if there would be a planetary congress, consisting of every individual eligible - ie, capable of dialogue and unite their wills. Christians call this the 2nd coming of christ. (I am a pagan but I acknowledge Jesus Christ as the god of the christians and I respect that, I live in eastern orthodoxy).
>>19421725
>is relgion paranormal?
There are usually supernatural claims to religions, so... yes, yes it is.
>>19423159
>=> ... ?
Species, I guess, if not nation or race before that. From there it goes into the "Tree of Life" groupings, or the ecosystem itself in which we find ourselves.