• Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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    4 hours ago

    Religion.

    It served a purpose when societies were first moving from hunting and gathering to agriculture. A community needed to coalesce around something tangible for resource sharing, protection, decision making, etc…

    It’s why, from a societal evolution perspective, we went from totemic religions based on fertility and family groups, to mass religions with defined hierachies and roles, because the evolution or religions reflect that evolutions of society at the time.

    We don’t need that anymore. It does more harm than good in the modern world.