Cultures are predominantly masculine or feminine. Just as it is difficult for humans to maintain a neutral attitude towards religion or politics, it is equally difficult with regard to sexuality. Since it is impossible to win an argument about the relative superiority of either sex, one way to establish superiority is to identify a supreme god who shares one’s gender. In order to do this one needs a compelling argument about the gender of a god. This requires a clear understanding of the difference between the genders. It isn’t necessary to convince each member of one’s tribe that the definition of gender is correct but it is necessary to be correct.

After identifying the basic attributes of the genders and searching for a suitable god, the Sun is recognized as the ideal candidate for a masculine god since it shares those basic attributes. Suitable candidates for feminine deities are the Earth and Moon. The attributes of masculinity in order of importance are aggression, creativity, and order. The reason for the choice of aggression is the need to procreate. Since a male must contrive to get his genes into a female, aggression understood in its widest sense is the basic requirement. Creativity is second since when force is rejected as unsuitable creativity will be necessary in identifying an alternative method. The third attribute is order because choosing a suitable recipient is also necessary.

In all respects save one, the genders are identical but sexually they are opposites. By opposite it is meant that sex is a spectrum with male at one end and moving through neutral in the middle to female at the other end. To contend that this statement is untrue, one would have to identify other genders. It is true there are anomalies as is generally true in nature but no obviously different genders, ones with differently constructed genitals, for example. The anomalies only demonstrate it is possible to confuse gender either genetically or culturally or both.

I will now attempt to summarize world religion from this perspective. There are two major masculinist world religions: Christianity and Islam. They are masculinist because they both identify the same masculine supreme deity and both believe in extending their religions worldwide, by force, if necessary, by missionaries if possible.

India is predominantly Muslim in the west and Hindu elsewhere. Hinduism would be classified as their national religion. It is closely related to Jainism and Buddhism. Historically, India was invaded by Aryans from Persia who established a masculinist religion called Brahminism. The indigenous population, known as Harappan and displaced by the invaders mixed their beliefs with The Vedas, a system of mantras and prayers that codified Brahmanism, and this evolved into Hinduism. Since the indigenous population would most accurately be called feminist, the resulting religion is mixed masculine and feminine.

Southeast Asia has no indigenous religion that survives. They formerly adopted the Buddhist religion and now are predominantly Muslim.

China has no national religion. There are sects of Taoists, Confucionists, believers in the I Ching, Buddhists, Muslims, Christians, and ancestor worshippers. Taoism is the closest thing to an indigenous religion. From my limited knowledge of this philosophy, it idealizes passivity.

Korea appears to have no independent indigenous religion.

Japan’s indigenous religion is Shinto. It is commonly called an animist religion and sometimes a nature religion. So, I would identify it as the archetype of a feminist religion.

This summary explains why I consider the world to be divided between a masculinist west and a feminist east with India being a mixture of the two.

One should also note that the two great western religions were invented by Moses and Mohammed. Because of feminine passivity this wouldn’t be expected to happen in a feminine culture. There, religious traditions would be expected to grow through an accumulation of taboos.