I understand gods (all of them, including the 500 or so dead ones we know of so

I understand gods (all of them, including the 500 or so dead ones we know of so far) as systems of measurement for organizing people by providing commensurability in thought, value, and behavior, reducing friction, especially as populations increase in anonymity, that persists a group evolutionary strategy across generations. In other words a set of anthropomorphic and therefore easily accessible by humans, headman, ruler, or natural influence without education or knowledge.
The primary psychological purpose of gods is to limit the influencde approval, diasapproval, and judgement of others by creating a standard and by adherence to that standard suppression of neuroticism and conflict.

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