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What does this phrase mean?
Above all the prime advantage of religions is to “inspire wholly contrary instincts.”
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It just means that religion can make people want to do things that they wouldn’t be prone to do otherwise.
Example: Christianity teaches us to love one another, but it would appear that it’s instinctual to humans to fight.
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But what are the wholly contrary instincts?
Does it imply that we are meant to kill and religion tells us not to?
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Tocqueville was saying religion was a way of “putting the brake on the materialistic democratic way of life”
Heavy topic.
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It means that our heart is given over to an evil nature as humans. Religion seeks to keep us from indulging in that evil and doing that which is right.
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