The Similarities Between Religion and Culture

Religion and culture provide people with a stable identity and a moralistic path towards a purpose/nReligion and culture simplify reality for easy understanding/nReligion and culture offer hope, whether it's an afterlife or a legacy/nBoth religious and cultural hero systems fulfill the human desire for cosmic specialness and ultimate usefulness/nAccording to Norman O' Brown, even supposedly secular Western society is as religious as any other