That is, the entire rational interpretation of the concept of the world, occurs on the basis of the data that he receives from the outside through the senses.
And there can be no other justification for such an interpretation, since a person is limited by his system of perception. For example, a person cannot know what death is just because he has not experienced it. A person only has his own idea of death, seeing how others lose signs of life. But he knows nothing about death as such, because he himself has never died.
Consequently, everything real that a person knows about himself and about the world around him, he knows only on the basis of his perception. It turns out that the idea of some meaning, including the meaning of life, is just a speculative concept that has nothing to do with life as such, if we identify life itself from the standpoint of the possibility of perception.
Religious idea as the meaning of life
Sooner or later, a person who thinks about the meaning of life comes to the next logical thought - about the emergence of life itself. The question of the meaning of life, as it were, precedes the question of its origin. That is, a person, in order to approach the meaning of life, wants to find its source. But the concept of the origin of life would rather predetermine the meaning, since the origin implies intention. After all, it is not enough for a person to simply have an idea of the beginning of something, since he needs an idea of a certain source.
Moreover, the source, in his view, is something vague - indefinite. What, in fact, is used by various ideologies, one of the tools of which is religion. Religion usurps the copyright to the world, despite the fact that its authoritarian essence is a rather primitive explanation of the world, which only works if this ridiculous idea is taken for granted. From the point of view of a primitive view, the religious idea explains everything, but in reality it does not explain anything, because it is absurd to refer to the fact that until a certain moment someone had nothing to do and he decided to create the world. Here, more concerned about the motives of God, which prompted him to create the world. Given the complexity of the world, to imagine the idea that this world was only the result of someone's unmeasurement is rather silly.
That is, the religious idea itself, as a translator of the "primary cause", is the fruit of its own failure. Religion springs from itself and goes into itself, because in fact, it does not explain anything. In itself, the existence of such an idea is due to a person's need for faith, simply due to his lack of ability to think. To a thinking person, the idea of some kind of "creation" of the world would seem something at least unfounded. Here I wrote about the attractiveness of religionOpens in a new window.
In the case of the unconditional acceptance of a religious idea, a person pays for its simplicity by losing the opportunity to consider it from a position of open-mindedness. But considering this idea without prejudice implies its inconsistency, since it is based on blind faith, without any justification. The viability of a religious idea is assumed not so much by its ideological concept, but by a person's inclination to believe in the authoritarian basis of this idea, since faith in it instinctively replaces any knowledge and justifies any human condition.
About religion! Why is religion attractive?
Man thinks that the religious idea is how he should think. But, in fact, the religious idea gives the person himself only what he himself wants to receive - no more. It may seem that religion is engaged in self-justification, pointing to the cause of everything, that is, a certain god, but in fact people themselves have such a need - to have in their heads an image of the cause of everything, and religion only satisfies this need.