The difference between truth on one hand and the utility of myths, legends, para

The difference between truth on one hand and the utility of myths, legends, parables, given the difference in human variation and ability.
But you are probably, like most, unaware that especially in china the concept of religion as we mean it in the abrahamic and indic traditions is considered rather silly and childish.
The japanese still practice somewhat the only ‘natural and non false religion’ of shinto which is ancestor and nature worship. Because worship is thanks for the debt to those who came before us and the nature upon which we depend.
All religion is debt service. Because it provokes the mindfulness of submissions to the pack(herd). Which is a very primitive and necessary instinct for social animals.
Likewise the purpose of that debt is to overcome human neuroticism (negative thoughts), anxiety, and fear that results from the gradual alienation of post-tribal life and continuous social regulation and reinforcement.
The question is whether we need more false religions or whether we can restore non-false religions. The greeks (west) and the chinese (east) thought philosophy, mythology, and ritual were superior to ‘falsehoods’ so common in the abrahamic tradition of slave morality (equality as rebellion against aristocracy) and less common but present in the indic religion of serf morality (social hierarchy as a substitute for military rank).
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