Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Thursday, May 17, 2018
RELIGION STABILIZES
RELIGION PERSONALLY STABILIZES
In a sense, perhaps in fact, any and all religious ministers, preachers , priests, rabbis, imams, etc., are mentally stabilizing elements within each community. They offer an easily accessible source of written or ritualistic comfort to people for their fears and unease, that is tied to what has gone before, while affording them a weekly message or narrative of hope, instruction, understanding, community, while contextualizing each individual on plane of continuum from earth to eternity, while explaining, "making plain" each person's particular purpose, duties to one another and to God, Allah, Jehovah, Jesus, any others regardless of its nomenclature, or lack.