*And when it comes to religion, to be clear: if it wasn't our current lone holdout from the Canaanite pantheon of gods, it would have been some other pantheon before that - or whatever pantheon we create next. Specific faiths are just a wrapper for deeper human behaviours in our authority-seeking group species. Getting rid of any specific wrapper doesn't change our underlying tribalism. This is why I sorely appreciate the people trying to lean into the nicer parts of our cultural lore today.