"A religion" is any framework of shared assumptions that enables cooperation without direct coordination needed. The guy knowing his HR would fire him knows their moral code and knows that they know he knows it - shared assumptions about morality.
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Replying to @thespandrell
If it has rules about adjudicating disputes that both parties will accept (or at least predictable), it's a religion. I don't see a bright line between "culture" and "religion". "Ideology" is a subset - the consciously held stuff
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Replying to @thespandrell
Law is a tiny portion of dispute resolution. Disputes and conflicts happen constantly and they're mediated by both sides internalized expectations of what they believe are the social rules and what they believe everyone will believe. 1/2
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @thespandrell
True believers don't think of their religion as a religion, simply as the moral framework in which they live and judge - like water to a fish. "Religion" only applies to the other guy. 2/2
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Intuitively I agree that something like a conflict between a wife and mother in law isn't in the bounds of "religion" but is in the bounds of "culture"; even religion as expansively defined isn't all consuming. The type of dispute and the parties matter.
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