The Function of Religion and Culture

Culture is a human construction, obviously. And it's made up of various illusions that make people feel better about their impending death and cosmic insignificance. Not unlike religion, people say stuff in western modernity all the time like, look at these religious people. But becker would say, look at culture for a second. Look at what you blindly immersed yourself into. Religion certainly gives people a stable identity to hold on to. So does culture religion gives people a purpose and a moralistic path towards getting to that purpose. so does culture. Civilized society is a hopeful belief and protest that science, money and goods make men count for more than any other animal. In this sense