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If religion is a "virtual reality game" then it is one with very real world effects. For instance, only religious people reproduce - the rest have sub replacement level birth rates.

Though I suppose one could regard liberalism and its sub-ideologies (feminism, diversity-ism, etc.) as virtual reality games as well, with the real world effect of not having children.

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> only religious people reproduce

The totality of that statement is absurd. I've seen plenty of non-religious people reproduce.

Also, if we're considering the lesser argument of "religious people reproduce more than non-religious people", then by that logic the people of Niger are (on average) 4 times more religious than US americans.

Source: https://ourworldindata.org/fertility/ (I'm looking at the curve from 2005 in the first chart.)

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