John Weatherford- Outside Reading:Wilderness and Religion

As I was doing research for my paper, I came across an article by the former director of the National Park Service, Roger G. Kennedy. Kennedy examined wilderness as a religious concept and showed how religion a wilderness are closely related. He says “Religion is the recognition of the limits of human competence in the presence of the unknowable ant the uncontrollable before which all humans stand in awe.” I believe that that is great way to describe religion but, also wilderness. A person cannot control what is going to happen in the wilderness because they don’t know what will happen. In religion a person feels a connection to a higher being, even though they are not spiritually the same as the being. In the wilderness a person might feel connected to their surround a feel like they are part of something bigger. But that person is not any better off than a deer in that same wilderness. There are many comparisons that can be made between religion and the wilderness.