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A society needs to expend resources on providing education in group strategy, moral mythology, wisdom literature, logic of arguing it, ritual, oath, festival to provide mindfulness. We spent lost on education(skill) but not mindfulness(discipline): religion.

Some people need religion as a framework for associations, some need only friends and family,and some need a sequence of allies on their life’s mission and some have the agency to compete at great scale by individual fortitude. It’s just your neural economy at work. Nothing else.

“Some, some, some, some = Vast majority, significant minority, small minority, almost no one.”

FWIW “almost no one” is the permanent .1%. Look at the families that have been wealthy for eight hundred years – there are plenty of them. Very selective marriage, very selective inheritance, very selective in all aspects of life.

The people who are dependent upon others for SOCIAL insurance, security, information, validation, and status because they cannot compete in ECONOMIC POLITICAL & MILITARY markets need a means of mindfulness. Alienation increases with the division of knowledge labor and hierarchy.

Mindfulness is necessary whether personal, interpersonal, social, economic, or political. In the sense that religion provides one or more of those demands for mindfulness, we merely need a true and evolution rather than false and regressive or devolutionary religion.

Given the individual’s ability to perceive, learn, calculate choices with the brain, emotional fortitude (or lack of it), relationships, knowledge, resources at his disposal, what external ‘confirmation’ does he need?

We’re all just bots. Some of us have better memory, CPUs and software and some less. You either have agency in yourself or dependency on others. If you are empathic, not bright, need opinion, information, confirmation, and to share calculation with others you’ll need religion.

God is an analogy – a character serving as an anthropomorphic and therefore simplistic system of imitative, sympathetic, and empathic pre-rational means of decidability within a group class sex and age survival strategy. God = Laws of the universe. Science=testifying with them.

Science=Testimony. Testimony requires identity, consistency, operational constructability from first principles, correspondence, rational choice, reciprocity, adversarial parsimony, limits, completeness, and warrantability. Since I know those things I can do that. That’s science.

The LDS and Amish reproductive arguments are true but constitute are a repetition of the same fallacy of the libertarians: they require a host state or empire to provide the (masculine political) commons that their (feminine familial) social order cannot.

INCREASE IN COST:
Religion -> Intuition
Philosophy -> Reason
Testimony -> Evidence
Science and Law -> Decidability
First Principles -> Causality