The other posts in the series didn’t catch my attention enough to really consider their content—they’re on fairly unimportant topics that are (relatively) safe to experiment with and find one’s own equilibrium. Religion is often … invasive. The successful ones are memetically evolved to affect many aspects of one’s life and cognition. Even when they bring personal or social benefits, even if those are net positive with the bundled harms, they are not trivial to adjust one’s personal use of them.
The other posts in the series didn’t catch my attention enough to really consider their content—they’re on fairly unimportant topics that are (relatively) safe to experiment with and find one’s own equilibrium. Religion is often … invasive. The successful ones are memetically evolved to affect many aspects of one’s life and cognition. Even when they bring personal or social benefits, even if those are net positive with the bundled harms, they are not trivial to adjust one’s personal use of them.