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99:4.3 True [[religion]] is a meaningful way of living [[dynamically]] face to face with the commonplace [[realities]] of everyday life. But if [[religion]] is to [[stimulate]] [[individual]] [[development]] of [[character]] and augment [[integration]] of [[personality]], it must not be [[standardized]]. If it is to stimulate [[evaluation]] of [[experience]] and serve as a value-lure, it must not be [[stereotyped]]. If  is to promote supreme loyalties, it must not be [[formalized]].

99:4.3 True [[religion]] is a meaningful way of living [[dynamically]] face to face with the commonplace [[realities]] of everyday life. But if [[religion]] is to [[stimulate]] [[individual]] [[development]] of [[character]] and augment [[integration]] of [[personality]], it must not be [[standardized]]. If it is to stimulate [[evaluation]] of [[experience]] and serve as a value-lure, it must not be [[stereotyped]]. If  is to promote supreme loyalties, it must not be [[formalized]].

99:4.4 No matter what [[upheavals]] may attend the [[social]] and [[economic]] [[growth]] of [[civilization]], [[religion]] is genuine and worth while if it fosters in the [[individual]] an [[experience]] in which the [[sovereignty]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_56#56:10._TRUTH.2C_BEAUTY.2C_AND_GOODNESS truth, beauty, and goodness] prevails, for such is the true [[spiritual]] [[concept]] of [[supreme]] [[reality]]. And through [[love]] and [[worship]] this becomes [[meaningful]] as fellowship with man and sonship with God.

99:4.4 No matter what [[upheavals]] may attend the [[social]] and [[economic]] [[growth]] of [[civilization]], [[religion]] is genuine and worth while if it fosters in the [[individual]] an [[experience]] in which the [[sovereignty]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_56#56:10._TRUTH.2C_BEAUTY.2C_AND_GOODNESS truth, beauty, and goodness] prevails, for such is the true [[spiritual]] [[concept]] of [[supreme]] [[reality]]. And through [[love]] and [[worship]] this becomes [[meaningful]] as fellowship with man and sonship with God.

99:4.5 After all, it is what one [[believes]] rather than what one knows that determines [[conduct]] and [[dominates]] [[personal]] [[performances]]. [[Purely]] [[factual]] [[knowledge]] exerts very little [[influence]] upon the [[average]] man unless it becomes [[emotionally]] activated. But the [[activation]] of [[religion]] is superemotional, unifying the entire [[human]] [[experience]] on [[transcendent]] levels through [[contact]] with, and release of, [[spiritual]] [[energies]] in the [[mortal]] life.

99:4.5 After all, it is what one [[believes]] rather than what one knows that determines [[conduct]] and [[dominates]] [[personal]] [[performances]]. [[Purely]] [[factual]] [[knowledge]] exerts very little [[influence]] upon the [[average]] man unless it becomes [[emotionally]] activated. But the [[activation]] of [[religion]] is superemotional, unifying the entire [[human]] [[experience]] on [[transcendent]] levels through [[contact]] with, and release of, [[spiritual]] [[energies]] in the [[mortal]] life.

99:4.7 There is no [[danger]] in religion's becoming more and more of a [[private]] matter—a [[personal]] [[experience]]—provided it does not lose its [[motivation]] for [[unselfish]] and loving [[social]] [[service]]. [[Religion]] has suffered from many secondary [[influences]]: sudden mixing of [[cultures]], intermingling of [[creeds]], diminution of ecclesiastical [[authority]], changing of [[family]] life, together with urbanization and [[mechanization]].

99:4.7 There is no [[danger]] in religion's becoming more and more of a [[private]] matter—a [[personal]] [[experience]]—provided it does not lose its [[motivation]] for [[unselfish]] and loving [[social]] [[service]]. [[Religion]] has suffered from many secondary [[influences]]: sudden mixing of [[cultures]], intermingling of [[creeds]], diminution of ecclesiastical [[authority]], changing of [[family]] life, together with urbanization and [[mechanization]].

99:4.8 Man's greatest [[spiritual]] [[jeopardy]] consists in partial [[progress]], the predicament of unfinished [[growth]]: forsaking the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:3._THE_NATURE_OF_EVOLUTIONARY_RELIGION evolutionary religions of fear] without [[immediately]] grasping the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:4._THE_GIFT_OF_REVELATION revelatory religion] of [[love]]. [[Modern]] [[science]], particularly [[psychology]], has weakened only those [[religions]] which are so largely dependent upon [[fear]], [[superstition]], and [[emotion]].

99:4.8 Man's greatest [[spiritual]] [[jeopardy]] consists in partial [[progress]], the predicament of unfinished [[growth]]: forsaking the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:3._THE_NATURE_OF_EVOLUTIONARY_RELIGION evolutionary religions of fear] without [[immediately]] grasping the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:4._THE_GIFT_OF_REVELATION revelatory religion] of [[love]]. [[Modern]] [[science]], particularly [[psychology]], has weakened only those [[religions]] which are so largely dependent upon [[fear]], [[superstition]], and [[emotion]].

99:4.9 [[Transition]] is always accompanied by [[confusion]], and there will be little [[tranquillity]] in the religious world until the great [[struggle]] between the [[three]] [[contending]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_religion philosophies of religion] is ended:

99:4.9 [[Transition]] is always accompanied by [[confusion]], and there will be little [[tranquillity]] in the religious world until the great [[struggle]] between the [[three]] [[contending]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_religion philosophies of religion] is ended:

99:4.10 And these three partial approaches to the [[reality]] of the [[cosmos]] must [[eventually]] become [[harmonized]] by the [[revelatory]] presentation of [[religion]], [[philosophy]], and [[cosmology]] which portrays the [[triune]] [[existence]] of [[spirit]], [[mind]], and [[energy]] proceeding from the [[Trinity]] of [[Paradise]] and [[attaining]] [[time-space]] [[unification]] within the [[Deity]] of the [[Supreme]].

99:4.10 And these three partial approaches to the [[reality]] of the [[cosmos]] must [[eventually]] become [[harmonized]] by the [[revelatory]] presentation of [[religion]], [[philosophy]], and [[cosmology]] which portrays the [[triune]] [[existence]] of [[spirit]], [[mind]], and [[energy]] proceeding from the [[Trinity]] of [[Paradise]] and [[attaining]] [[time-space]] [[unification]] within the [[Deity]] of the [[Supreme]].

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[[Category:Paper 99 - The Social Problems of Religion]]

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