One of the advantages of a nature-based religion is that miracles are everywhere. Religious symbols based on the universal geometry of fractals and Fibonacci patterns mean we can always find a sign from the universe. Attributing meaning to geological and climate phenomena such as the turning of the winds keeps us attuned to as yet poorly understood physiology and biochemistry. Perhaps such faith is a placebo. Perhaps it is the simple means of directing attention to the harder to perceive changes in ourselves that makes these faiths seem more powerful than they are.
But it is hard to be unimpressed by the minds that created religions where faith is omnipresent and the mundane is a constant reminder of the miraculous.
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