Comment by moate
3 days ago
So what about the checks notes tens if not hundreds of thousands of religions and religious belief structures that have fallen apart since the inception of humanity?
This is some very weird survivor bias.
Also, philosophically, a the whole of organized religion is "clever stories to entrap people" from a non-believer's standpoint.
I would certainly like to compare the proportion of memetic* material in the IP of religious vs commercial orgs that are holdovers from more than 700 years ago.
*(equivalent to "genetic" in bio organisms)
Archaic phrasings and occurrences of latin should be ignored to make it more balanced :) yep the survivor bias is quite.. a thing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_of_Survival