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No religion should require you believe a falsehood – only pay the cost of initiation and ongoing rituals in exchange for personal, interpersonal, social, political, and universal mindfulness.
There is nothing false in the natural law of sovereignty reciprocity, truth, duty, charity, and markets in everything.
There is nothing false in the elimination of hatred from the human heart, the extension of kinship love of family to the polity, personal acts of charity, and the exhaustion of forgiveness before abandonment or punishment.
There is nothing false in ritual thanks to one another, to our ancestors, to those who made our existence possible, to the natural world, to the universe, and to the universe’s god – in whatever form that might be.
There is nothing false in their parables, their myths, their histories other than their ignorance and vulnerability of time and place.
There is nothing false in the ritual training of the body, intuition(soul), memory(knowledge), reason (calculation), ethics, morality, the law, and the skills with which to prosper.
There is nothing false in that combination of of which will cause us, and any who likewise do the same, to transcend into the gods we have not yet made.
That is not a sentimental argument. It is the optimum order for human beings. There is none better possible. It’s just science.