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I wouldn't say that human beings are religious by nature, I would say they're "tribalistic" by nature, a semantic difference maybe but an important one.

And tribalism can be organic or inorganic in terms of the coalesced value system around which the tribe "worships", be it cult of personality, organized religion, YouTube personalities, ethnicity, bands, etc. etc.

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I think that's 2/3rds of it, but I think you'd need to add the final 1/3rd which is a shared metaphysical set of values. In other words, the tribe needs to be about more than just kinship and belonging - there needs to be a higher purpose or esoteric dimension to the group that comes from beyond the group.

That's slightly different. Tribes are relatively small and straight forward. I agree there is probably some foundation of tribalism on which religions are built upon, but the religious mental framework is what has allowed civilizations to exist. From the earliest Sumerian civilizations people need myths in order to organize in large numbers effectively.

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