“Q: ARE HUMANS PREDISPOSED TO RELIGION?” (great question) 1) Humans are naturall

“Q: ARE HUMANS PREDISPOSED TO RELIGION?”
(great question)

1) Humans are naturally predisposed to embodiment and to social interaction (like all mammals), both of which are instinctual, emotional, and pre-rational. And so given human increased capacity for abstraction, humans are naturally predisposed to anthropomorphism. As such we naturally intuit that unexplanable phenomena are cased by the intentional action of selfishly and socially motivated forces (spirits).

2) Humans are predisposed to require a standard of weights and measures for equally interpreting the world, whether in objects concepts references, symbols, or language. Myths are the means by which we combine the need for weights and measures for explaining what we do not understand using the anthropmorphic system of measurmement we are all born with.

3) Humans are predisposed to the pack’s feast cycle of motivation, hunting, killing, ritual, feasting, celebrating, sex, and rest.

4) Humans are predisposed to hierarchy, inequality, risk of ostracization or being left behind, or risk of danger against nature or man in conflict and war. The purpose of rituals, especially social rituals is to provide mindfulness (sedation) creating sacred (inviolable without betrayal of the group) of mutual bonding and stress reduction especially over relationships, resources, food, and mates.

Humans are therefore predisposed to the process of producing mindfulness (suppression of neuroticism and anxiety and fear) that allows superpredators (us) to organize, cooperate, and compete in large numbers for the benefit of all despite the ongoing pressure of status that drives natural selection.

SPECTRUM OF MINDFULNESS SYSTEMS
European Empiricism
European Stoicism
Sinic Confucianism + tea rituals
Japanese Ancestor Worship + craftsman rituals
Hindu-Asian Buddhism
Semitic Supernormal Marxism
Semitic Abrahamism (judaism, chistianity, islam)
African Natural Religion (Magic Spirits)

Cheers
Curt Doolittle
The Natural Law Institute