Three Worlds of Collective Human Experience: Individual Life, Social Change, and Human Evolution by Victor N. Shaw

Author:Victor N. Shaw
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9783319981956
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

10.3 Regulation

Faith is to establish rules in secular life. Religion is to regulate existences and happenings in the mundane world of commonsense . Through faith, believers find ways toward order, comfort, and purpose. By religion , practitioners secure means for control, peace, and meaning.

First are principles about the world with regard to its beginning, existence, change, and end. While different faiths have different views, the world seems to come and go, operate and sustain, exist and evolve by a few general rules in religion . Rule One establishes that a universal spirit, god , deity, or divine entity dwells and permeates before and after, within and without, above and beyond this world. It creates this world if the world has a genesis as written in the Christian Bible. It oversees the world if the world is nothing but Samsara , the cycle of repeated births and deaths, as seen in the eyes of Buddha . Rule Two asserts that this world is here and now, definite and temporal, painful and chaotic. By some beliefs, this world serves as a stage for an almighty authority to execute his will and plan. According to other faiths, this world provides an opportunity for the humans to prove their virtue, endurance, and worth. Rule Three proclaims that there are other worlds, one better than this world arranged by an almighty entity for the humans to find their purpose and enjoy eternal happiness, the other worse than this world deployed by a mischievous devil to trick and trap the humans into permanent suffering and misery. Rule Four reveals that things seen in this world, including the Sun , the Moon , stars, clouds, rains, waters, sands, stones, animals, and plants, have souls and meanings signifying what is holy or mundane, noble or humble, lofty or lowly, and that acts performed in this life, such as helping neighbors, sharing resources, aiding the poor, and protecting the environment, have intentionality and consequences presaging what is to come as good fortunes or bad lucks, rewards or punishments, blessing or damnation.

Second are propositions about life and the humanity. All religions seem to impose or uphold a universal, eternal moral order for the humans and human life. Life is sacred and precious. Buddhist monks refrain from hurting any living beings and adhere to a vegetarian diet as a way of life. Hardcore Christians embrace life with absolute respect from the time of conception and remain vigilant to fight and condemn abortion at any point of pregnancy as a grave sin. The humans embody the divinity and exhibit holy spirits. Jesus Christ as the Son of God in Christianity came to this world by birth in a specific location, faced all the secular odds and did all the mundane things across a particular territory, and passed away through a dramatic yet still human way of death at a peculiar time. By all measures, he was an ordinary human being who lived a common human life. Muhammad as the Messenger of God

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