A lot of these studies answer the questions: Why are we alive? What are we doing here? Where are we going? Where have we been before we were born? etc.
Understanding what is important for people who survive as human beings as opposed to those who self destruct along the way I feel is important simply because I came very close to self destructing myself during my early 20s especially before I got married and had my first child.
So, "Why do some people survive to age 30 and many people do not?"
Having been one of the many people who don't survive to 30 for various reasons I thought studying comparative religion was important because it shows how people have reached out for answers often when there were no logical answers at all.
So, if there are no logical answers unless you make up something to believe in you are a goner.
People these days are different than those people when I grew up simply because sometimes you can trust science, especially medical science.
This was not really true yet in the 1950s and most people I knew didn't trust doctors AT ALL, especially in the church I was raised in.
STill, today I don't think it's about whether you trust doctors or not it's really about "Have you done enough research yourself about what is possible in order to find ways to stay alive. I still don't really trust doctors because I see medical science as also a type of religion that some people believe in and some people don't with most people being somewhere in between.
So, if religion is a religion and science is a religion and atheism is a religion then you see where I'm going with all of this.
We all choose our religions each and every moment and if we don't choose carefully enough then we are just dead before our times and that's all.
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