Frank's Musings

Ross Douthat wrote today in the New York Times hat the personal need for religion may, for some, spring from the fear of death. For those of us suffering with chronic disease there is, on the contrary, an underlying longing for it.

He also affirms that society’s need is for organized religion to provide a shared narrative that binds it together. That is to shirk the more rigorous Rawlsian argument that the best prescription for societal order is behavior that favors rational civic order.

Religions have been corrupted throughout history to engender sectoral conflict. Lifting the common intellect to understand what is in everyone’s interest is the leadership task accomplishment of which will contribute the most to world peace.