The theogenic drive is a contentless capacity that precedes the content of any religion. Just as no infant arrives in the world already "Christian" or "Muslim"; no one is born with the theogenic drive already attached to a specific idea of god. What is born is the capacity to search for meaning, to attribute causality, and to orient toward transcendence. Religion is the first great historical form this capacity has taken, but not its only form. The same drive can just as easily channel into nationalism, into ideology, even into the scientific worldview itself.
This concept positions religion not as "false belief" but as the historical manifestation of a universal cognitive capacity; it neither sanctifies nor belittles it.