RE207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: French Revolution, Jonathan Haidt, Abrahamic Religions
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Stark is trying to make an adjustment to popular view. The people responsible for the french revolution, saying we can"t get rid of religion or else people will go crazy . According to stark, this broad statement religion functions to sustain the moral orider we need to modify this and amend it. It was the rituals that reinforced the religion not god. When you do an extreme thing, it creates this moral cohesion, and moral cohesion makes you not want to piss someone off. People going to war, not knowing each other, fighting along side each, and this powerful event happens, and they die for one another. Religious rituals are like going to war (haskell"s example) Being in this intimate community makes people moral it has nothing to do with beliefs. The real things happening was the phenomenon. Trying to show that it"s about religion"s conception of god and not it"s rituals that are most crucial to establishing moral order.
