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Maybe I should expand my definition and say that the number of people who seek a transcendent and spiritual experience is well over 95% of the world's population
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Wow...are you seriously just making up those numbers or what? What's your source for that claim?
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My point is that religion or the need for spirituality is ingrained in all of us. While I may be a Christian in my own personal life, I take inspiration from the world's many great religious traditions, including the writings of modern secularists, who originally saw themselves as being on a spiritual journey of their own.
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I think a desire to know what (if anything) exists after our deaths, and the answers to complex questions concerning life and the origins of the universe are a common theme in humanity. I don't think there's an innate need for religion or spirituality, only a need to find answers to those questions. So far, religion has been the "best" (and I use that term very loosely) source of providing answers, and that's why it's been embraced by billions of people.