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> Nah, religion is just repackaged tribalism.

No, it's not. Religious identity may be a focus of tribalism, but religion is more than identity.

> Not like we wouldn't replace it with something equally stupid, like rioting and fighting each other over politics... At least religion includes a sort of morality as part of the deal.

So does politics; every political ideology, like every religious ideology, is exactly a "sort of morality". Actually, there's often a content overlap between political and religious ideologies (and often a political ideology subsumes an expressly religious one, or vice versa.)



Religion is more "good intentions" than "a sort of morality".

Disregarding facts is and should considered to be immoral.

But you can very well have "good intentions" while doing so.


Leaving aside for the moment whether your implicit generalization about what religion is accurate, the fact that a system of morality is one that you disagree with does not stop it from being a system of morality.

Of course, followers of different sorts of morality often view it as immoral; that's inherent in conflict between moral systems.




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