... Protestantism has veered into extreme denial of the richer dimension of human reality - usually by chucking everything it does not like into a devil bucket. Intellectually Protestantism napalmed the human spiritual dimension, and reduced the inner landscape to desolation haunted by hungry ghosts, reduced to pretending to be God in order to get attention.
I have been thinking lately of how different people with different spiritual worldviews, belief systems, religions, secular worldviews, etc can have "good lives" despite their not all having "correct" interpretations of life, the universe, and everything.
For example, much of my family are ardent adherents of a certain protestant Christian sect. It is a theologically conservative sect. The church teaches biblical literalism, which is not something I am personally interested in.
That said, in my observation, it seems like a person who believes in biblical literalism can have as good a life as a person who is an atheist/materialist and they both can have as good a life as somebody who believes in a universal consciousness model or an animism model. (Naturally, they could also all have miserable lives; I don't think there are any guarantees.)
For me, when considering my goal of leading a good life, it seems that my private, personal interpretation of life, the universe, and everything isn't required to be "accurate" or "correct". I think it's possible for a person to lead a good life even if their worldview or belief system is "inaccurate".
Obviously, there is a whole other question about how worldviews, beliefs, religions, etc play out in the public/political sphere.
For me, it can be useful to consider one's private, personal goals independently of the public/political sphere -- I think it's an arbitrary division that seems useful for some purposes, though in "actuality" I don't think we're ever totally free of the public/political sphere's influence.
All of this leads me to wonder what draws people to the topics we explore here. If "accuracy" of worldview is not a requirement of leading a good life, what do people get out of these explorations on a personal level? I have some ideas of what I get, but I am curious to know about other people.