Conceptual Blending

Conceptual blending is an interesting idea. It is not one that is known to be related to religion, but when you try to understand religion and faith by apply some of the information of conceptual blending it all makes sense. In conceptual blending there are two ideas that are put together to create a new blended idea. In religion there are many ideas that are taken such as human actions and God. These two concepts are brought together and they can help to create this idea of religion.
In religion conceptual blending is used a lot. The bible is a prime example of this. There are many examples in the bible of human actions being compared to odd things. At first glance they may not make sense. Augustine might argue that when the bible say odd things like killing babies that it is to be taken figuratively. This is a form of conceptual blending. You have your input or your ideas that are blended together to create a new reality or idea. This idea of killing babies doesn’t literally mean that we should do so, rather it means that we should kill all evil ideas. After the metaphor of killing the babies is taken away the new blended idea comes forward.
Conceptual blending is a tool that most religions use. It is key to faith and explanations of certain things such as the bible. This tool is important to the study of religion because it allows people to grain a lot of insight in to the world of religion.