Do made-up joke-religions deserve the same respect as real, practiced religions?

[Bretton Garcia]

65. Free Will debates have been around for a while

Sounds like the article you have has a slightly new wrinkle. But the debate is very old. And has always proposed that in effect,.many if not all of our beliefs, are hard-wired,; "determined," by our gods,.or environment. Or now, brain structure.

Most agree that some of our ideas are determined.. But not all. And? Much of philosophy, phenomenology, has tried to uncover underlying beliefs.

And there's a joke about the belief that all our lives are determined: even determinists look both ways before they cross the street. As if they still believe their free will makes a difference.

I think that our thinking is largely determined. But if it is determined partly by our own individual envirinment? Then it is determined in our own unique, individual way. So we have a partly correct sense of doing things "our way."

In most models in any case, some beliefs seem more determined than others. So not all beliefs are.so fixed. And likely, there is say, no " religion gene," that guarantees that we all get religion, as some claim.