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by kuhewa 1021 days ago
I reckon this "shower thought" could use some workshopping. Religious / metaphysical / supernatural figures almost by definition don't represent the typical opinions of adherents, they being supernatural and all. Perhaps there is a case to be made that they are manifestations of moral aspirations or 'superego' commonalities but it might be hard to make a case that those are the same as mean opinion. Further, concepts of god are conserved concepts passed down from previous generations, so if they represent mean anything they are a lagged moving average mean with a lot of smoothing applied. In even simple societies there are typically some people closer to the god than others, and who interpret or get a greater say (i.e. priest or shaman) on what the nature of god is, so the mean would also be strongly weighted.

Insofar as it is true as written in that you are a dissident if you are in the minority in religious belief, I suppose that's self evident.