It isn't my experience, it's the history of the human species. You don't have to guarantee that loads of people identify with a deity. I'm not arguing otherwise. Religion is the institutionalization of ideation as truth. Many people are convinced that if enough people believe something then it must be true. This is nonsense. If we look at educated cultures that do not promote proselytizing or indoctrination before a certain age (because indoctrination of children has been construed as a form of child abuse), religion is not the political force or social controlling agent that it is in most capitalist societies.
It isn't my experience, it's the history of the human species. You don't have to guarantee that loads of people identify with a deity. I'm not arguing otherwise. Religion is the institutionalization of ideation as truth. Many people are convinced that if enough people believe something then it must be true. This is nonsense. If we look at educated cultures that do not promote proselytizing or indoctrination before a certain age (because indoctrination of children has been construed as a form of child abuse), religion is not the political force or social controlling agent that it is in most capitalist societies.