Philosophy and Religion for masses

 We hardly ever write about the thoughts and proceedings inside the mind of people like daily wage workers, farmers, general working-class and other population which constitute the mass, of thinking philosophically.

That's maybe because generally, they don't.

If you are not once in a while think philosophically, it is amusing.

If some form of philosophy isn't part of your decision making, then probably you are not an outcome of critical thinking.

Maybe that is why people turn to religion because it appears a quick-fix answer to such complex and possibly unanswered questions.

And maybe that's why they tend to stick to it.

If something is your only source of information/knowledge/explanation about things you are incapable of funding solutions/answers to, maybe you could get touchy about it.

And since the humility of general philosophy in case of something unanswerable is easily unpleasing than the confident claims of religions about having clear-cut solutions.

Just to clarify my thoughts, what I am proposing is that the set of values derived from religions are more or less in line with what philosophy aims to tackle. The stabilization and continuous carrying on of religion have other factors as well. But what drives the masses for protection of religious claims is their dependence on the religion derived ideals for the philosophical ideas.

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