If perception is reality then what is real to one person is not real to someone else. Whose reality is the true reality,and is there anyway to measure it? Even if you can measure a person's perceived reality as being false and show them the results, getting them to acknowledge that everything they had believed is not the true reality would be extremely difficult. What if that reality isn't a physical reality but a belief...you can't measure a belief and so you can't prove it.
At the purest fundamental aspect of religion, a person ultimately chooses to believe in a religion and make it their reality. Maybe they made that choice because it was the same choice as their parents. Maybe it's because it is their nations religion. But it always comes down to a choice, a choice that is influenced by their "reality", which is purely a perception of what is actually real.
This is not a logic flow to show that religion isn't real, I am just trying to say that maybe believing in a religion limits how much of reality we can actually see. What if believing in religion limits how much one sees of reality? Maybe I'm wrong because of my perception...maybe I am the one that has limited sight of what is actually real because I choose not to believe in any religion. Everyone's belief or lack thereof alters their perception on what is actually real...and in the end I'm not sure anyone has ever seen the world as it is...without an altered perception. There is no base line.
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Is how much you "see" of reality the defining factor of the value you place on your existence? Knowledge cannot satisfy the heart, and human beings are intended to be whole creatures: body-mind-emotions-etc., all wrapped up into a package. Break it into components and it fails to work. What it means to be an educated person is perhaps less important than what it means to be a whole person.
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