Thursday 25 June 2015

Threat for Religion: Communality + Ignorance

 Either in ancient times or modern age like today, the presence of religion has always played a pivotal role in people’s lives. Aside than its purpose to provide personal security by superstitious salvation against incertitude of life and death, and to give temporary negligent answers upon sophisticated life questions, religion constitutes societal order by regulating social norms and ethics; it is a role of which positions religion not only as a private instrument for individuals’ divine journey, but also communal instrument that promises communal safety in both life and afterlife.