As ever the excellent J&M hitting the nail on the head. Religion is a misfiring of an evolutionary impulse or emotion to prefer everyone in the tribe to believe the same things and act in the same way. It used to be an advantage that in small populations it promoted cohesion, made everyone feel warm and fuzzy and (more insidiously) facilitated control, now, in our post industrial, Global age, it just stifles innovation and leads to division. Time to move on.
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