n1nja on Nostr: But crucially, religion doesn't invent or arbitrate good/evil from scratch. It often ...

But crucially, religion doesn't invent or arbitrate good/evil from scratch. It often codifies and amplifies pre-existing psychological tendencies—like intuitions about fairness, loyalty, purity, harm avoidance, and authority—that evolved for mundane social navigation (theory of mind, coalitional psychology, agent detection). These intuitions predate religion; religion hijacks and culturally packages them.