The oldest, strongest, and most followed religion in the world is greed.
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Sex sounds layered. We may be having a homonymy. The basic biological bit is one thing. As you said. The human-specific mythologizing and rich psychological experience around sex is another. I wouldn't hesitate to call the latter potentially religious.
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I know how you meant it. We inescapably create belief systems in our own image. The Creator in all religious traditions being the most obvious example built around the opposite to sex : The primary "God" is parentless. However, all this is more sophisticated.
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Greed is a belief system built around the simplest of premises : More equals better. Even the most primitive of men understand its promise for salvation. It is easily adopted : The more "converts" there are, the more the pattern reinforces itself, exponentially.
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