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18193746 No.18193746 [Reply] [Original]

I just realized that the point of religion is to give your biological offspring a behavioral mean to regress to to reduce the risks of living in your environment and attrition between like-minded peers.
Thoughts?

>> No.18193754

Cringe. Read The Holy Bible and go to church. That's the only truth you'll ever need.

>> No.18193765

>>18193746
Based. Read the Selfish Gene and pass on your memes.

>> No.18193821

>>18193746
If you recognise "religion" as a legitimate super-category to understand the world (it is not) and then take Christianity as your only reference point for how religion functions (you should not) then yes, that makes sense. In reality, things are a lot more complicated than that. People often worshipped the same gods but in very different ways. In the Roman empire, there were many legitimate and state-endorsed cults that existed simultaneously and were in competition with one another without being in conflict.

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>>18193746
Religion is not an institution that has goals or reasons behind it, it just is.

>> No.18193888

>>18193746
Good post and possibly true but you're just using religion as a specialised institution of morality