Religion is irrational. It makes unprovable claims, contradicts science, and asks for faith where reason demands evidence. And yet — without it, human beings descend into despair, fragmentation, and madness. Across cultures and centuries, the sacred has given suffering meaning, death dignity, and life direction. When societies abandon religion, they don’t become purely rational — they become lost, desperate for substitutes, and vulnerable to darker forms of faith.

In this episode, we explore the paradox at the heart of modernity: how something so unscientific remains essential to human sanity and social order. From the neurobiology of ritual to the collapse of meaning in secular societies, from ancient myths to modern nihilism, we trace why the sacred is not a luxury but a psychological necessity — and how rediscovering it may be the only way out of our age of anxiety.

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