religion is an actual thing, it's not just culture with some cutsey beliefs stamped on top of it. "Culture" alone has never made parents cut off contact with children they loved out of fear they would burn for an eternity if they didn't
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Culture produces strong taboos, and cutting contact or engaging in violence for violating these taboos is not uncommon.
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For example, honor killings are often non-religious in nature.
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Can't think of a parent and children case, but I know of estrangement between relatives due to non religious factors eg inheritance disputes
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Is politics not a part of culture? Plenty of people cut off family members for voting for Trump. I know of a few of these cases personally. Sad.
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People have definitely done that on non-religious cultural grounds. I think in a lot of cases religion is just the rationalization (so to speak)
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The notion of "hell" has done more damage to human society than any other single idea.
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If you take an extremely broad definition of religion and pit it against a very narrow definition of culture then sure.
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Religion is a part of culture. It's not some weird separate thing. I'll informed take about religion is annoying on here
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It's a mind virus that survives by increasing the evolutionary success of its host tribe. I think one of the main mechanisms is by increasing the maximum effective tribe size to infinite (bigger than nation states).
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