I think part of the purpose of some aspects of religion is to provide a release from social pressures.

I have no idea how Jesus' resurrection might produce freedom except insofar as some Christian theologians see it as some kind of juridical settlement, relieving humans from the threat of eternal damnation as a result of being born sinful by inflicting the punishment on Jesus instead of humans, relieving God of his responsibility for having screwed up creation by making humans sinful.

Edit in response to Aklim's view: One of the reasons religion has to relieve people of social pressures is because it does so much to create them.

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