Religion vs Culture

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If religion were only a matter of cultural inheritance then there would be no cultural problem. No religious problem. But Religion is complex compared to culture. Culture is sort of like DNA: passed down from generation to generation with occasional mistakes. Religion on the other hand injects irritating ideas into culture. I see that you are confused here. Let me make the matter a bit clearer:

Catholic religion, Jewish religion, Muslim religion (all of Western Religion), are not Religions at all but cultural manifestations handed down for hundreds or thousands of years. Mistakes creep in but generally they maintain their structure against the march of history and science.

Therefore religion is culture, whereas Religion is a cultural irritant tending to act as a catalyst which changes fundamentally the nature of the culture. Did you get that?