–“Q: CURT: What is a non-false religion”–
First, what does a religion consist of? A religion suppresses neuroticism and conflict among social animals by conveying a group evolutionary strategy as a standard of weights and measures in and across generations, using the simplest form of memory retention, and most general system of measurement: storytelling using archetypes.
So religions consist of a group evolutionary strategy, a set of metaphysical presumptions about man, nature, and the relations between, a mythos to communicated it, a system of argument to persist and defend it, and a network of rituals both for the individual, the family, and the polity, by way of the sacred (debt, thanks, and respect), the feast, and the festival, each of which reduces one another to a temporary equality, providing what we call ‘the spiritual’ which is the surrender the self to the pack biological response.
Most religions in the past have produced these necessities by lying. This is no longer advantageous because it is decreasingly possible. Only a minority of the population is possessed of personality traits open to submission, and worse, nder mass education these superstitions and occultisms, sophistries and pseudosciences are increasingly difficult – and at present only persist due to possibility of family and social indoctrination.
So effectively the world is searching for a non-false religion. And teh only non-false religion is stoicism (which is just behavioral modification). But it is too psychologically costly for all but the middle to upper classes, and is extremely difficult for women in particular.
That does not mean we cannot produce some intersection of stoicism and the four agreements for the individual, secular humanism as a philosophy, and nature, ethnicity, polity, ancestor, and hero worship which are the only true debts we have to respect, pay off, and transfer to the following generations.
Cheers
CD
Reply addressees: @HakeemDemi
Source date (UTC): 2024-05-10 17:56:27 UTC
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