Common good trauma

The story that I have been told is that Christianity was the first religion built on the foundation of the greater good, as opposed to selective good and evil

Since then a number of competing religions have claimed the same mantra.

The paradox for the owners of these religions is that they had to make any following of the alternatives a mortal sin, hence denigrating their own mantra of common good.

Indeed, since they didn’t have copyright laws to fall back on they also had to make misuse of their brand a mortal sin.

I suppose it was all for the greater good in the context of personal greed.

The solution is secular common good systems which have built in protection against control by the greedy.

However this transition period where secular and religious common good causes are coexisting looks pretty traumatic. Since the latter are being replaced by the former; it’s no surprise there is a bit of push back.