Hi onedone,
The notion of the need for security is accompanied by others (academics)-
Chatwin (1988) believes that religion is a response to anxiety and that movement (Across the landscapes) , by catharting this anxiety removes the need for religion...
Another (academic) Berman suggests that this movement makes religious ritual superfluous as the ‘..immediate experience that the need for anything more complicated than paradox is largely obviated..’(Berman, 2000:166)
Jung stated (not up to finding the quote right now) that the notion of religion with the ‘Holy Family’ takes away the prospect of worship of the nat’ mother as the ‘creator of mankind’: As she could not carry such adulation. (Not in all cases of course as we still get our ‘mammers boys’- who’s mothers would rather have their son’s dead than wed.)
Thank God there is a there is a God or the atheist would have nothing to not believe in.. so such are but trite to me.
I like the basis of those who believe in the matter of fact..but alas back to Mater/Mother Earth again.. 'the mater of time'..we float on a sea of images from the collective and words are the expression of same that change to suite the present gods.. Reason being the latest goddess to take up mankind’s energy. I like Hillman’s notion that each word is an angle birthing itself into our consciousness and having both history and pending modification before it sinks into the sea of unconscious again.
So the prospect of leaving religion is like leaving the origin of language..so yes it is a little more than difficult..
Chadwin B. 1988- The Songlines. New York: Penguin Books.
Berman M 2000 Wandering God. Albany: SUNY.
I still work with people who are suicidal. my main interest is in sculpture via ceramics