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Originally Posted by GGG
I’d disagree, in early society’s religion served an evolutionary purpose. It created the in groups and social rules that ensured the success of early societies.
Take for example the eating prohibitions and their correlation with things that spoil and carry risk of disease. So things like not killing your fellow community members came from religions.
The sets of rules early societies adopted were their religion. This doesn’t mean that religion was required for these things to exist or that religion has exclusive claim to moral thought.
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Should probably clarify which culture you’re talking about, since society and societal/social rules predated religion in a lot of cultures.