THE UTILITY OF ‘RELIGION’ (ALL) I’ve tried to explain over the past few months,

THE UTILITY OF ‘RELIGION’

(ALL)

I’ve tried to explain over the past few months, that ‘religion’ provides a set of personal, interpersonal, social, and political services necessary for cooperation to ‘scale’.

I’ve tried to explain that we humans have invented a number of ‘technologies’ for providing those services. And I’ve listed those technologies to demonstrate that non-dishonest (non lies) technologies successfully provide these services.

I’ve stated that for the personal discipline, original stoicism is best, and original buddhism second best.

That for personal rituals shintoism (Ancestor ‘celebration’) is best. ( I reject the use of rituals for personal discipline because they enforce stasis rather than adaptation and invention)

That for political mythology: history, hero, and ancestor ‘celebration’, and teachings on a regular (if not weekly) basis. (continuous reinforcement of heroic individuals and families and clans).

That holidays, feasts, sports, theatre, music, (and lots of them) are necessary and must be participatory.

That for ‘spiritual’ religion, nature (universe) celebration, that generates sacredness for earth and commons is necessary.

None of these things require falsehoods. All of these things either work, or have worked.

Abrahamism, whether supernatural, pseudo-rational, or pseudoscientific, is the great lie that must be cleansed from the human experience, if we are to transcend.