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America’s New Religions & the Cult of Self-Making | Tara Isabella Burton

Hidden Forces

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What Is a Religion?

"It is pretty much impossible to come up with a definition of religion that most let alone all religion scholars will agree with," he says. "What human beings historically have gotten from religion is the answer to the question, what is it all for?" He adds: We are hungry for these things as human beings and this is how we get them. The thing that religion does is the sating of our personal needs."

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