"Conceptual Blending and Analogy" and Religion

Gilles Fauconnier's article "Conceptual Blending and Analogy" explains how people seem to innately understand analogies or metaphors. He examines this with an experiment involving a computer. People are able to move and grasp objects on the computer like they would in reality because they apply some of the concepts from real life to the computer and ignore the characteristics of the computer that don't fit. This is conceptual blending. A simpler explanation in my opinion would be something like this, the ability to apply varying levels of concepts, depending on what is needed, from one activity to another. It is a natural thing for humans to automatically do this and so it follows that it would be natural for this to be a frame through which people understand their religions. The psalms uses analogies many times that people seem to clearly understand such as referring to people as sheep or making the story of one person's life an analogy for the rules of God and also their own lives.  Fauconnier discusses briefly in his article how people find analogies based on their personal backgrounds such as the latter psalms metaphor I just mentioned.  We too have talked about this issue in class several times that people all people interpret things differently no two people share the exact same views, ideas, interpretations, etc. Augustine also addresses people's innate ability to analyze as well as views things differently from one another when he exclaims how wonderful of God it was ti create a work, the bible, that can be interpreted in an infinite amount of correct ways as long as the end result of love god love your neighbor remains.  The journeys are all different but everyone will meet at the same place in the end, with god.  If one were to plug religion into the example Fauconnier gives about the boat race with the ghost boat and the present one it might be something like this.  Religious texts are the ghost boat and a person's ideas and experiences are the present boat. Our minds conceptually blend the two with the result not being a comparative boat race, but how the religious text fits into our lives and what message we interpret it as telling us.