A thing about religious (and other) people and the illusion of free will

[ShinyCrystals]

If by religious standard, you mean simple belief, yeah, that makes since. Still, religion is synonymous with belief, and that does not have to be about a supreme being at birth, right?

Neither beliefs nor religions have to be about supreme beings.  If we were going to do a deep dive, we could confront how religions that have gods are still not based on those gods.  The gods are superstitions.  They're juicers - a shortcut to authority.  Authority for what?  Now we're talking religion.  The god isn't the religion, it's the stuff the god allegedly cosigns.  Once we're there we begin to see why religion doesn't have to be taught.  There's no belief about how the world should be that can't come to an individual genuinely...and, if we're really following through, we have to accept that every bit of all of the contents of all of the worlds religions -did- come to at least one person, once, genuinely.

This is what sociologists and anthropologists mean when they talk about religion being natural to human beings. It's actually a defining characteristic of our species. We don't consider ourselves fully modern until we start displaying religious thinking.

Oh, that is interesting. That said, I have to correct myself on something; if religion was no natural inclination, as you may have said it was one in humans, we probably would not be the humans we are today, right? Or no?

But I still think religion, as religion about supreme beings, that is; do interfere with independent thought as I described and was trying to say, especially the minds of the more hardcore and dedicated believers in a supreme being who do things in the name of such a being.