So there was the 2nd Philosophy meeting today at school, but my first. It began with the topic of Religion and tried to start with answering the simple question of “Is religion needed?” Well there were pretty much 3 groups of people, the atheists who some thought of it as a crutch, the Christians/Catholics who would say something about God, and then others who I didn’t really get to hear or determine what that they thought cause I could only stay for part of the time. Everybody was divided into 2 groups due to the large amount of people but my group had a hard time answering the topic or even staying off topic getting into squabbles over matters of energy, atoms, infinity, the beginning of the universe, cars, abortion, and other junk that was loosely related to the topic. As I said I didn’t stay till the end but all the thoughts I really had on the actual question didn’t really come to me till after I left. One was that on the most basic level, man needs very little to survive, and so technically, no, religion is not needed. Then to those who viewed religion as a ‘crutch’, I could see any belief of anything to be a ‘crutch’. The belief in atheism and only being able to look to yourself and mankind could be considered a crutch helping you to overcome the sinfulness of humans or the thought that there could be a force that you cannot fathom and can’t predict and understand. But hey, it just philosophy, right?
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