Investigating the World

Today, this blog is as good a place as any to jot down an idea that is probably in the foundation of any religious person's world view. I 'm presuming that to be religious in the way that I once was decades ago, one has to accept the following premises:

1. There is a Supernatural component to reality
   
2. The Supernatural contains entities that can affect our existence
   
3. Humans have souls
   
4. The Supernatural realm has some relationship to the soul.
   
5. Supernatural entities have some effect on human souls
   
6. Humans should think and behave in a way that is most likely to bring about the kind treatment of us in the physical world ... and/or ...
   
7. Humans should think and behave in a way that is most likely to bring about the kind treatment of our souls in the supernatural world
   

Obviously, the religiously and/or philosophically inclined might find more or less about this brief brain dump that they'd include in the consideration of the world - whatever they conceive it to be - but it seems like a good place to start the investigation.