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Interesting that you mention the spiritual part of this. It’s the idea that the true nature of the world is true and just and it is only through the work of man that it is corrupted. When in reality the true nature of the world is unjust.

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I think the most significant phenomenon in religious belief is the found in the reversal of where spirit emanates from (human labor and action) by projecting it outside of humanity into some abstract ethereal entity, which is then pursued in the hopes of recovering some now-lost wholeness of man who has been “corrupted”.

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Myth of the Golden Age.

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