Reclaim religion, and make it into whatever you want them to know.
Because that stuff is HUGE sometimes, very often somewhere. Don't get me wrong: religion tends to be almost completely irrelevant in most peoples lives, thankfully so, as it spares the natural concience at the expense of Remembered Imperatives Inherently Out-of-context. When do modern people to tend to feel compelled to, across the board, invite or at least indulge in religion? Mostly at lifecycle events. Weddings and funerals, we let churches deal with, accepting their mumbo-jumbo, signification and (holy)namedropping in exchange for doing something comforting for someone in our family. It occurred to me once that that kind of religion is basically the temple of Hera-- Hearth, family and mature comfort.
That is just one of maybe two, maybe three, maybe seven, maybe twelve, or maybe 5 billion directions that religious tendancy can swing, and let's acknowledge something about our civilization perhaps: It sits on the head of religion; ritual and narrative-dogma filling the great traditional gap in the hearts of humanity. It could be that television and internet could fill this gap in people's lives and days, were it not for the interruption of wedding or funeral to make us socialize again with the people we either love or maybe just somehow respect enough to share dark and light moments with.
Some people like to do that shit at least once a week! Some people even need to like twice a day. And some people need to be in that trance every fucking second of every fucking day.
And why not? Society seems to TOTALLY TOLERATE IT, in a way that few other priorities but the law itself and of course it's older sister Pleasure inspire. Why shouldn't we take advantage of that window for resolving dead time? Denominatio-- Because Media isn't nessesarily enough to co-opt the tools of moral and social education that church once monopolized back to our hands, we might want to take control of what the names mean and moral standards will be.
