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<blockquote class="definition">'''Religion''' is a faith-based [[Existential Paradigm]] woven into a complex institutional framework, a framework created and controlled by elite members of the [[Accumulating Class]] in order to service their accumulation agenda. '''Religion''' is [[institution]] designed to help propagate a specific [[Existential Paradigm]].  
<blockquote class="definition">'''Religion''' a complicated and flexible human institution set up to meet [[Essential Needs essential] and [[Non-essential Needs]]. Religions are organized around a core emphasis on providing answers to our big questions, with a usual emphasis on the satisfaction of alignment and connection needs as the institutional core. A religious institution itself consists of social, ritual/practical, experiential, narrative/mythic, doctrinal, ethical/legal, material dimensions, and healing dimensions all geared towards the satisfaction of various human needs.<ref>Mike Sosteric, “What Is Religion” 2022, https://www.academia.edu/80934448/What_is_Religion<ref>
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Propagating an [[Existential Paradigm]] helps individuals meet their cognitive need to know and understand the world, and their more spiritual need for [[Alignment]] and [[Connection]]. Religion can, and often is, constructed to meet other of our [[Seven Essential Need]]s, like our emotional needs for belonging. Thus..
Religion is often co-opted and controlled by members of the [[Accumulating Class]]. In this case, religion functions as an [[Ideological Institution]] designed to help propagate a specific [[Creation Templae]].  


Religion is also an institution setup to help meet one or more of humanity's [[Seven Essential Needs]].
Religion is also an institution setup to help meet one or more of humanity's [[Seven Essential Needs]].


Religion may be broken down into two sub-classes, [[Elite Religion]] and [[Working Class Religion]]. Elite religion prioritizes the needs of the [[Accumulating Class]] while [[Working Class Religion]] prioritizes [[Healing]], [[Connection]], and the [[Seven Essential Needs]] of humanity.
Religion may be broken down into two sub-classes, [[Elite Religion]] and [[Authentic Religion]]. Elite religion prioritizes the needs of the [[Accumulating Class]] while [[Authentic Religion]] prioritizes [[Healing]], [[Connection]], and the [[Seven Essential Needs]] of humanity.
 
Religion may be further distinguishes as either [[Authentic Religion]] (religion that teaches authentic healing and [[Connection Practice]] and [[Inauthentic Religion]], which teaches anything and everything but.


Religion is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down and, frankly, scholars have said some really stupid shit about it over the years, [[Sigmund Freud]] being a classic example. Freud believed that religion arises as a consequence of  
Religion is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down and, frankly, scholars have said some really stupid shit about it over the years, [[Sigmund Freud]] being a classic example. Freud believed that religion arises as a consequence of  

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Religion

Religion a complicated and flexible human institution set up to meet [[Essential Needs essential] and Non-essential Needs. Religions are organized around a core emphasis on providing answers to our big questions, with a usual emphasis on the satisfaction of alignment and connection needs as the institutional core. A religious institution itself consists of social, ritual/practical, experiential, narrative/mythic, doctrinal, ethical/legal, material dimensions, and healing dimensions all geared towards the satisfaction of various human needs.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag

  1. the need to defend oneself against the "crushingly superior force of nature."[1]
  2. The "urge to rectify the shortcoming of civilization..."[2]

For a more fulsome discussion of definitions and issues, see What is Religion

Other Definitions

"Religion tends to be conceptualized as an external, community-based phenomena in which a particular organized set of beliefs, behaviors, and rituals are institutionalized by individuals sharing similar spiritualities."[3]

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Freud, Sigmund. The Future of an Illusion. New York: Anchor Books, 1961. p. 21
  2. ↑ Freud, Sigmund. The Future of an Illusion. New York: Anchor Books, 1961. p. 21
  3. ↑ Hodge, David R. “The Intrinsic Spirituality Scale: A New Six-Item Instrument for Assessing the Salience of Spirituality as a Motivational Construct.” Journal of Social Service Research 30, no. 1 (January 1, 2003): 41–61. https://doi.org/10.1300/J079v30n01_03. 42







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