Posted by Cornfed on
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I would think such ideas would be reasonably comprehensible to the average person if they were simplified and the implications explicitly spelled out. True believers would behave morally because they would have a sense of shared enterprise outside of themselves, would expect Earthly reward in the sense of creating intrinsically satisfying entities (quality families etc.) and would want to strive to be essential to future more complex states so that their essence would be recycled somewhat whole and they would therefore achieve immortality. The more useful creative stuff they do the more reason they would expect to cross over whole. For a sacred text, perhaps the idea would be to explicitly spell out the gist of the religion and its behavioral implications and then co-opt some sort of Gnostic text or something like Tolkien's The Silmarillion. Priests could fill in the blanks.