Maslow's heirarchy of twaddle
Maslow's "hierarchy of needs" is nonsense unsupported by experiment. Question: Do people turn to religion when they are fat and happy, or desperate, hungry, and tired?
Some other things in the same pile: "outside-the-box" creativity builders, emotional and multiple intelligences, Bloom's Taxonomy, Freudianism, Myer's-Briggs types, and the right-brained/left-brained dichotomy.
Some other things in the same pile: "outside-the-box" creativity builders, emotional and multiple intelligences, Bloom's Taxonomy, Freudianism, Myer's-Briggs types, and the right-brained/left-brained dichotomy.
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you're right that people seek out religion when they NEED something, but there is some truth to what Maslow says. I find it really hard to do my best in a calling when I'm sick, or to sit and do scripture study when I feel like my life is falling apart. Mom has a theory that the Church has noticed this, and that's why there's food at every Singles Ward activity (including Sunday block meetings in many wards) It's why Christ fed the five thousand -- hoping that then they could understand some of the deeper doctrines that he wanted to teach.
Maslow may be right sometimes and wrong other times. The point is he doesn't know if he is right, because he didn't do enough real world tests of his ideas. He just had a plausible idea and everyone assumed he was correct. That's not science.