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whereas religion asks us to believe in something, money asks us to believe that other people believe in something.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
#2—What do I spend a silly amount of money on? How might I scratch my own itch?
Tools of Titans
Timothy Ferriss
The last 300 years are often depicted as an age of growing secularism, in which religions have increasingly lost their importance. If we are talking about theist religions, this is largely correct. But if we take into consideration natural-law religions, then modernity turns out to be an age of intense religious fervour, unparalleled missionary efforts, and the bloodiest wars of religion in history. The modern age has witnessed the rise of a number of new natural-law religions, such as liberalism, Communism, capitalism, nationalism and Nazism. These creeds do not like to be called religions, and refer to themselves as ideologies. But this is just a semantic exercise. If a religion is a system of human norms and values that is founded on belief in a superhuman order, then Soviet Communism was no less a religion than Islam.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
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