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Q&A on God and Religion with Aaron Smith and Mike Mazza

New Ideal, from the Ayn Rand Institute

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Is Religion a Primitive Form of Philosophy?

Religion is just a first stab at answers to fundamental questions about who am what am I, where am I, and how do I function in the world? And there's a purpose and you kind of fit into it. It gives you a sense of, okay, I have a framework now. Now there's a lot that's wrong with it, but the idea that you need a framework isn't always right. So yeah, so that's what she means. There aren't a lot of competing secular philosophies as ways of life. We don't really have that anymore. At least in the United States or elsewhere. Maybe there'll be an epicurean revival someday and maybe there'll

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