[From "The Logos"]

Around 350 years before Christ, paganism had died among the intellectuals. Not long after, it died among the common people, for we read writers in the late Roman Republic ridiculing attempts to motivate the common soldiers by appeal to faith. They believed the ordinary soldier was even more cynical than themselves

So the philosophers set to work manufacturing a replacement

For Aristotle, “logos” (“word”) was rational and responsive debate, and the meaning of that[…]– the kind of debate I encourage on my blog[…]
Moral truths from material and effective causation:
For example the red pill on women implies that we should restore the social technology our ancestors had[…]If you don’t have a good state religion, you will shortly have a very bad one[…]Priesthood, like an army, is a mechanism of large scale cooperation[…]The “no establishment of religion” clause is not viable or even meaningful except as in accord with the Westphalian principle that each state has its own state religion[…]
The Logos as a person
Natural law is law and right conduct deduced from the way the universe is[…]
Meaning requires a meaner[…]Around three hundred years before Christ, fifty years after Aristotle, “the logos” (“the word”) came to mean a person[…]
Which Stoic doctrine is right there in the New Testament: The Gospel of John, Chapter one, verse one:[…]
Game theory 101, prisoners dilemma. Everyone should cooperate with cooperators and defect on defectors. tit for tat[…]
Christianity announced that that person had shown up, fully man and fully God, and announced game theory 301, and suffered everything that flesh can suffer

Game theory 301, in a world of imperfect information, one tit for two tats, or else everyone gets stuck in defect/defect[…]
Classic Romano Greek paganism was long dead, Aristotle tried to substitute meaning without an author to mean it[…]The stoics had to personify the logos, through whom all things were created