Someone has made a point to me in private messages that claims that religion is any philosophy that one chooses to apply to their life. Afaics, that is evasive, because I would still differentiate that definition of religion from a philosophy of life that involves an unfalsiable God, so I would still need a term to describe the latter. Also that person has claimed to me that no philosophy of life can be falsified concretely as they claim any metrics are a moving target that can't be absolutely compared (specifically claimed that we can only "observe transient temporal congruence and extrapolate").

If the person who wrote that wants to claim public ownership of the comments, they are welcome to. Otherwise, since I have unilaterally decided to respond publicly (because I don't like if my significant efforts at intellectual interaction are not open sourced), I will not provide the person's identity.

My retort is that cultural evolutionary strategy can most definitely be statistically compared over long-enough time frames, for attributes such as fertility, wealth accumulation, average IQ, etc.. God can't be falsified.

My problem with the God religion is it sent me down a path of trying to follow some rules which I did not understand the goal, other than to serve some nebulous God and "love". And therefor my mind and competitive motivation was not (fully) engaged. My mind was sent off on tangents of trying to find superstitious correlations such as the puzzle in the Bible about the Abomination of the Desolation and its relationship to the possible year of the return of Jesus. And thus the period in which I tried to embrace Christianity from roughly 2006 to 2012 or so, was the most destructive period of my life where I made the absolute worst possible decisions, was very unproductive in my career, and destroyed my life. So yeah, I pretty much hate the God religion. I prefer to use my intellect.

Rebuttals and discussion is welcome. Let's try to be respectful to all sides.

Also I'm still contemplating the discussion ongoing with miscreanity and I admit I don't have it all holistically worked out in my mind. So I am still learning and so I am not speaking in absolutes and remain open minded.