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If religion is supposedly so liberating then why so many strict rules?

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SW-User
@Graylight True, how do random atoms in motion develop the concepts of goodness, graciousness and mercy. Or for that matter evil.
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Graylight · 51-55, F
@SW-User Physicists have found that observation of quantum phenomena by a detector or an instrument can change the measured results of this experiment. We have no idea how or why this would be. That's matter changing its behavior when it's being looked at.

We're flies buzzing at a window corner inside a house. What could we possibly understand of the world outside?
SW-User
@Graylight Try Quarks, Chaos and Christianity by John Polkinghorne..
Graylight · 51-55, F
@SW-User Thanks for the read suggestion. You can understand, then, how we might not have the complete riddle yet, much less all the answers.
SW-User
@Graylight Yes, I see where you are coming from.
Graylight · 51-55, F
@SW-User I will look up that title, though. It's sounds fascinating.