Is Religion Really Important for People's Lives?

rc: Religion is super important for people's lives and having that kind of social structure seems to be essential at some level. i run a meet up here in Durham North Carolina for Scott's blog  and they brought all the meet-up organizers out a couple of uh months ago, he says. The religious obligation was no longer part of it when friends relied on each other for different things or if you went to church with someone who didn't believe in jesus but still needed their help. rc: I think one thing that keeps those churches from being like those big social structures withlike the kind of support and longevity is that they can't have norms they enforce.