COMPARATIVE RELIGION AND THE NEXT REVOLUTION It’s difficult to study comparative

COMPARATIVE RELIGION AND THE NEXT REVOLUTION
It’s difficult to study comparative civilization without study of comparative religion. 😉 I went to a private catholic high school where we were taught comparative religion. Which I wish was standard fare, just as we were taught how to conduct marriage and family, which I also wish was standard fare.

However, I work on religion only as a social scientist, in an effort to explain positive an negative consequences of religiosity, and while making an effort to discover a path to non-false religions that do not require suspension of disbelief.

So while I have studied regional religions and the age of transformation as producing an early form of mass production of conceptual and behavioral weights and measures that reduced friction and increased chances of cooperation, I find no value in discussions of religions on their terms, only as social science.

And you will not that I hold a dim view of all the systematic fictionalisms, whether sophistry to idealism(philosophy), magic to pseudoscience, occult(divination, fortune telling) to esotericism(textualism, numerology), supernatural to theological, or critique to seditionism. These are all claims of knowledge that doesn’t exist.

Religion can function, optimally, as an education system to indoctrinate the intuition of the young into the group evolutionary strategy by means of suggestion, repetition, social and emotional reinforcement, and in that role it provides positive mindfulness by assisting in the transfer of manners, ethics, morals, and traditions between generations, facilitating cooperation and as such minimizing conflict and alienation.

Religion can also act as as a supernatural coping mechanism, is necessary for the production of mindfulness (discipline or sedation) by those whose empathizing, social rejection due to undesirability, neuroticism, or lack of intelligence sufficient, as a safeguard against alienation, anxity, and depression. It’s an addiction response.

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