Can a culture become a religion?

[WolveParticipant 191]

I had this idea pop into my mind “If any culture becomes extreme enough (radical/ extremist-ish) will it become a religion” and this is what I ended up with when I started writing down what came up in my mind afterwards I would like to hear your guys thoughts on it:

Any substantially extreme culture will be(come) a religion

Culture: The collective values and assumptions of a large group of people (behaviours follow values for you act on them)
Religion: An organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems, and world views

Any substantially extreme culture has a collection of values. When values become extreme people will assume them to be correct and to not be ostracised by the community (people from that culture) assume them to be correct and view the world through the lens of those values and assumption and actively ignore all evidence contrary to them.
When all evidence contrary to their values and assumptions are ignored they become beliefs and a group of people holding the same beliefs and acting accordingly will thus be organized by the values they hold and if taken far enough create an environment of people who live contrary to it not being able to express opinion going against set beliefs.
When this environment gets to the point of no contrary opinions being allowed the values and assumptions will grow more alike due to all people convincing others around them to hold more like theirs and there being no contrary opinions allowed assuming there is no great enough influx of people from an outside culture coming in to allow differing opinions to be expressed the values will grow more alike until an organized collection of beliefs, cultural system(s), and world views is created.

[bigboy83Participant 11312]

The Nostics civilization who happen to get whipped out on the face of the earth.

Their religion was Knowledge!

So anything is possible…….

Shit Tested, Cunt Approved.

[OldscoundrellParticipant 412]

Posted this on a previous thread. Think it applies. Hope it helps.

.The gap between main stream culture and subcultures is growing and will continue to become more separated and defined, much like different religions in the past. It all boils down to what people choose to live for, or what they choose to worship if you will.

[RoyDalParticipant]

Communist countries enforce atheism. What happens to religion? The masses swap in people like Lenin for their former object of worship. The basic behavior remains the same. They even use the same terms of phrase.

Some psychologist wrote an article years ago about this, and he used many examples from the old USSR and PRC. It has been too long for me to remember where I found the article, but I remember one passage especially. The author compared an official govt propaganda piece about Lenin with a church piece about Jesus. You could have swapped one name for the other without making any real changes.

He concluded we must have a built in desire for religion in our lives, some authority figure to worship and appeal to for help. I think he is right. It is a classic way to avoid taking responsibility for the consequences of one’s actions.

Society asks MGTOWs: Why are you not making more tax-slaves?

[WolveParticipant 191]

That is definitely an interesting point RoyDal, a built in desire for religion, interesting. Another thing to think about thank you.

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