When you look out at the world asking "what are people taking as their religions" you get all sorts of answers back: fandoms, social media, ideologies, video games. Unfortunately most of these are terrible religions. E.g. they're mostly for young childless people, not families.
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Riffing off a recent SSC post, most modern religions-in-this-sense have been selected memetically, not culturally. They're collections of viral sticky memes that people are drawn to but that's very different from actually promoting long-term individual and group flourishing.
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