Where do we even begin to understand the world around us?

While many completely underestimate the study of Religion, relegating it to nothing more than reading about myths and fantasy, it has a massive advantage.

It’s a key to understanding culture, including its language, rituals and symbolism.

The one thing you quickly learn is that Religion, much like culture, transforms. It does this through contact with others, ideas that are challenged from within and adapting when necessary. I always find it puzzling that there are those who would plant their feet in the sand in an effort to defend a moment in time as the moment from which we should never stray from.

The Catholic Church, for instance, is a behemoth and glacially slow to move, but it does. Yet, there are those within who feel it shouldn’t have left 1958 as that is what “true” Catholicism looks like.

But—things move and things change.

Our very nature asks us to give symbolism to just about everything and to abandon those symbols when they are no longer useful. Should a person not be able to keep up, they are lost. Confused. Completely uncertain as to what is going on anymore.

It’s in these moments, we need to break the veil into something real.

And the most real thing we can do is connect with each other.