We didn't outgrow religion; all of the pieces needed for devotion to an absurd story are still in us, mixed quietly into how we process the world. The danger is that we *think* we've outgrown it; we're a fractured insanity pointing at a cohesive one, saying "aren't they stupid"
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God, repentance, and excommunication just became simulation, workplace bias training, and cancellation.
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The clear majority of the world's population is still explicitly religious anyway.
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I think that the people in the fractured insanity are still a super minority... The "cohesive insanity" it's still IMO the prevailing POV, which means that the fractured one is most likely to change or vanish.
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The religious impulse has never been outgrown, just outsourced. The worship of money, government, political or social ideologies, freedom, security or just the narcissistic ego are all still forms of worship.
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Humans won't outgrow religion
Even in an evolutionary setting...
Every human society has had religion, going back to the earliest evidence of humanity (ritualistic burials 25,000 bc)
Religion serves an evolutionary purpose
You never outgrow religion, you only swap gods
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