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Warning

This book will be wildly offensive to most people.

At its core, The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion is a meditation on how we can intentionally construct a culture/religion that will be “evolutionarily successful” and spread. Within it, you will find a heavily annotated playbook for constructing a cultural/religious framework optimized to preserve (rather than erase) the individual traditions, values, and worldviews of those who join while maximizing autonomy and individual efficacy. We will be completely transparent as to the motivation behind every decision made in its fabrication.

This book is written from a secular perspective to be relevant and useful to those who want to build a family culture that is intergenerationally durable. That said, the tools and tactics described in the coming pages can be used with equal alacrity to strengthen and reinforce an existing religious framework.

In this book we make generalizations about cultural and religious groups, as it is impossible to write a book on culture and religion without doing so. We also take a strong pronatalist perspective because outside of cases of conquest or conversion, most of the time when a culture “wins” over other cultures, it prevails by producing more kids who remain within that culture. If this is not what you were looking for when buying the book, please email us (at Hello@Pragmatist.Guide) and ask for a refund. Regardless, all proceeds from this series go to the Pragmatist Foundation, a nonprofit which is presently focused on building a better form of secondary school (middle school and high school).

Finally, unlike our other books, The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion is intended to be read in order and will explicitly signal when a section or chapter is safe to skip. This book gives readers a choice between three reading experiences: If you want the most compressed experience, skip chapters marked as skippable. For the normal experience, read the book and stop at the Appendix. For the “extended cut,” read the bolded footnotes (which lead to deeper pontification—not sources, definitions, or simple explanations) and skip forward to read each of the Appendix chapters as they are referenced in the book.

As with all our books, we will gladly share a free audiobook copy with you. To request one, visit Pragmatist.Guide/ReligionAudio.