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Yeah, this was the hard problem I ran up against when working on religion through 2018-2019. Technically speaking, abrahamic religions and all fundamentalism is lying through your teeth to bait people into the hazard of ignorance, superstition, submission and defeat.
That said, there is something to be said for the jeffersonian bible, which treats jesus as a semitic philosopher trying to solve the problem of tribalism, lying, deceit, fraud, undermining, and corruption pervasive then as well as now.
From the European perspective, europeanism is an aristocratic and military strategy, philosophy, and religion where man may seek to defeat corrupt and spurious gods through use of wit and technology, duty and loyalty. The conquered, enserfed, enslaved, or rule, and lower classes were treated as property – another domesticated animal that was difficult to civilize (same as today).
So while the western empire was developing it’s own more generalized cult that would have matured into an equally civilizing moral tradition for the bottom classes, the eastern empire saw the opportunity to defeat the western empire and take control by imposing the religion and replacing the (failed state) bureacracy, and preventing a restoration of that martial discipline and european traditions.
So christianity did solve a problem by allowing the integration of the classes from the bottom up – instead as was occurring, from the top down. But the result was a dark age of ignorance, the impossiiblity of the aristocracy to recover the state.
So what do we do? Is it primitive to think a religion other than stoicism for men, the four agreements for women and children, state, ethnicity, ancestor, hero, and nature worship (all worship is debt service) and thus a non-false religion. From there the only philosophy necessary is the natural law of cooperation and the continued advancement of the sciences. Restore the family instead of the individual as the primary goal of policy, and suppress all frauds and fals promises, and most importantly all female means of responsibilty evasion undermining and justification of irresponsibily and hyperconsumption.
The answers are possible. But Christianity is a dead weight. However it may be the only ballast that is possible to float a revolution.

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