Religion is a self-sustaining beast. It reproduces - it's got 'evangelizing' parts and 'have lots of babies' parts - also some vestigial 'don't abort' and 'get married before sex' parts too, which were ideal in its original environment, but now no longer useful. 1/
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visibly or measurably different in their behavior than people who don't host a creature (or, more accurately, host much more fluid/smaller scale creatures). They self-segregate, they feature high-sacrifice signaling for greater acceptance of the tribe, they oppose others. 7/
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Ironically, according to this definition many liberal churches in America are no longer hosts to religious creatures; the reproductive and defense elements have been eviscerated; their religion has been taxidermied and put on display as some sort of fond memory. 8/
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And according to this definition many things that aren't actual religions, are doing the same thing in spirit to religions. The BLM movement seems to be heading this direction - it hits hard every single one of the points I listed above.
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