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Religion is a path to approach the question from the answer.
The act, though, puts a lot of faith in the provider of the answer. Which is not good... It is other people. Priests, pastors, pandits, imams, all of whom have their own agenda. Their own interpretation. Then people get trapped into following mortal truths rather than immortal ones.
It is easy to manipulate people with religion because the basic tenets are undisputed. Be kind, don't hurt the other, be generous. They are good edicts. But they get diluted quickly as dogma encroaches and indoctrination follows, refocusing the endeavor towards perpetuation and proselytization.
The system is incentivized to preserve itself.
The original tenets become mere distraction. Sins to wash away with baptism, Kumbh Mela, confession, tithe, conversion. The continuation of the system becomes the primary tenet. Who does it benefit?
If your primary motivation is to preserve and grow your system - i.e. if the system cannot preserve itself based on its own merits - then perhaps the system is out of integrity and needs to recalibrate? If a system requires faith, it is insidious. It is broken and will deteriorate.
A friend talks of Plum Village. Thích Nhất Hạnh's monastery. The friend speaks of how Thích Nhất Hạnh was a revolutionary within Buddhism. How he encourages his students to question the tenets of Buddhism and the ways in which the monastery operates. True leaders (and true believers) are not afraid of questions, and they are not afraid of change. Because they work with the system. They recognize that the system's power is in its flexibility. After Thích Nhất Hạnh passed, this friend said, the other monks became focused on preserving Thích Nhất Hạnh's legacy. Dogmatizing the flexible system to preserve it.
On a podcast, Balaji Srinivasan talks about the 'Founding Fathers' of America. About the revolutionaries, building a movement, then a government. Experimenting with systems, changing systems, writing a constitution. Iterating, amending. Driving change. America has many flaws. One of which is that the constitution is no longer amended. Only interpreted. Much like the Bible, or the Bhagavad Gita, this ancient text - the constitution - has stopped evolving to modern needs. The dirth of original thought in nation-building is evident in precedent-based politicized courts. Now nation-building happens through loopholes and lobbies. The lack of degrees of freedom in the system causes the quality of new leadership to degrade.
For systems to last, they must recruit their leaders responsibly. They must recruit conscientious rebels. Folks in touch with their values. People who are secure without the system such that they don't rely on the system for their power. They say the best leaders are they ones who don't want to lead. Thats incorrect, or at least, incomplete. The best leaders are the ones who desire change - not for the sake of change or power - but for the good of people.
On Questions and Answers (Disclaimer)
We all approach questions from answers! It is not a bad approach in general. Perhaps requires more discernment when the answer is highly subjective.
Religion is a great tool for the study of the questions! When used as such. It is just that not everyone is meditating on the questions. Mostly, that is harmless. But there is potential for harm when destructive forces use the tool of Religion to their ends.