>>300175Eh, not really true. For instance midsummer. We still celebrate it in finland it similar manner than originally. Only they renamed it after some saint that literally nobody knows who he is if you ask them. Also the rituals from it were removed, although the ritual that is more practical to modern human (drinking alcohol) is still there and some of the spells that have to do with finding your future partner. Thats just one example, i could list more that didnt really have to do with agriculture or farming but were seasonal, like easter traditions, but i dont feel like it. The point is they dont have to do with agriculture. There are so many non-seasonal things that are inherently pagan but just moved to finnish lutheranism. Like not telling anyone, but the priest your babies name before the baptism, still practiced. Putting certain kind of pictures of birds on gravestones. Inherently pagan. And so on. But you get the point, and i get your point. You arent wrong in what you say about how life updates so certain traditions become less and less meaningful, because you can see the exact same in purely Lutheran traditions. Let say its saint stephens day, a holiday in finland, but if i ask any regular person, for instance a member of my family or somebody from my work place what that means i can assure you they wouldnt know. In fact they wouldnt even know who saint stephen is. In finland you have to be either super hardcore christian or massive wikipedia nerd to know what any of these christian holidays are. Regular people have no clue, and the day only represents free day from work, nothing else. No celebration, nothing. So you yes i can see how your argument makes sense.
That said i think that level categorizations of religions is too simplistic and the way you think about whats natural or not is a christian or modern sense of natural. Every natural process is natural. Its extremely simplistic, and quite frankly naive, to think that everything that is organized today is made from think air, but everything organized on certain point of time is not. Like if you think that old religion was just because of farming, and christianity is perhaps because of slavery or poorness or thing like that then you are fool, because the historical reasons for these organized beliefs goes way beyond "we just need ritualistic mnemonics for this and that".
Lastly you make some points about transsexuals and what not. I dunno what that has to do with anything, especially your categorization of religions. If we think about scientology, i cant really think any transsexual associated with it. There was one celebrity back in hubbards day whose name i dont remember, but thats about it. Meanwhile finnish lutheran church has transsexual priests. So i dunno how that rambling about transsexuals holds any ground.
And yeah, the way you say that leftism is corrupting christianity makes no sense either, since it was christianity itself that gave rise to many of those leftist ideas in the first place.
Anyway, next time you categorize religions, maybe rank them by their actual truth claims instead of some prejudiced reading of history. I think the fundamental questions are important. You cant have proper progress with the idea that life is misery and you need to slavishly do certain rituals to gain salvation in death and only in death. You have progress when actively study mind and consciousness and think what it actually means to live a good life, and there is nothing wrong with seeking inspiration from people who thought that too, but you gotta remember that each religious teacher or wise man was also a victim of their time. be it LRH or historical jesus.