Q: –“Why has no one made a humanist ideology that acts as a surrogate religion.”–
CORRECT ANSWER:
1) What we call religions consist of ritual construction of neural relations that serve as a means of uncertainty and suppression alienation exaggerated by our degree of neuroticism (sensitivity to negative emotions).
2) Religions and Religious Substitutes require Myths (framings that contextualize experience and understanding), rituals (means of repetitious reinforcement), social reinforcement (disalienation reinforcement), because the purpose of religion is compensation for alienation that increases rather rapidly as post-hunter-gatherer society increases, and the continuous social reinforcement at every moment of the day decreases.
3) The means of social reinforcement must be available to the individuals who pursue the set of ‘myths’, ‘rituals’ and ‘social reinforcement’.
4) As such as human ability, knowledge, understanding increase, then we should and do experience the emergence of a spectrum of ‘religion’ that provides accessibility to the broad spectrum of human psychological vulnerabilities, intellectual capacity, and education sufficient to grasp the mythology, method, and a population sufficient to reinforce it.
5) stoicism is the optimum religion (the collection of the ‘greek way’) however it is unavailable to the empathic, neurotic, ignorant, unsuccessful, and undisciplined). Christianity is accessible with little other than ritual repetition. Same for Islam. Yet christianity is currently practiced as an entire spectrum from humanist down to fundamentalist, and even the unstructured occultist.
6) So we have produced humanist variations on both the greek (stoic) and christian (secular humanist) versions but because the demands of the classes and sexes vary it is not yet possible to form organically a religion as we have in the past.
7) As such the next ‘religion’ will require intentional training (costly) which will require state institutional support and indoctrination and it will be very close to the combination of cognitive behavioral therapy (real world actions of desensitization) stoicism (ritual virtues of self regulation and self improvement), christianity(elimination of hatred, extension of kinship love, personal acts of charity at personal expense, and exhaustion of forgiveness before retaliation.)
8) As I have stated repeatedly the only non false religion is the natural religion to which the Japanese have preserved the surviving example: Nature, State (only nation state), Hero, and Ancestor worship, where worship consist of thanks for the transfer of capital from the past to the present – because we are in fact indebted to nature, state, hero, and ancestor. In that model god (simple anthropomorphism) and nature (more abstract anthropomorphism) are synonymous.
Cheers
Curt Doolittle
The Natural Law Institute
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