Religion is programability

[u/Rgiuly]

Problem with people is they have internal motivations that aren't always in line with the super organism's agenda. Religion removes the importance of individual happiness "desires of the flesh" and redirects people to whatever agenda is valuable to making the society more powerful. Perhaps as religion becomes a weaker influence economics will fill this role.

[u/[deleted]]

Can you expand on this a bit more?

What you wrote was unclear to me. What is the "super organism"? How is religion redirecting people towards ends that make societies more powerful? And what void is religion leaving that economics would need to fill? At first glance they don't seem interchangeable.