No one is disagreeing that a large marjority of humands (individuals and societies) carry (or have carried) some kind of religious belief - 88%, 98% 99% - who cares. Now stay with the actual topic - Why do they?
It should have been obvious that the "little on the high side" is not really disagreeing with you in a relevant way.
You are probably right, though, to include the past since current statitics would indicate that 98% may be high and it may then be dropping. However, use of such statistics would be irrelevant as even if "regular" religious observation were shown to be dropping we'd have to include the belief in a number of other replacements -- channeling, UFO's, astrology and so on. All of which need to be explained.
This message has been edited by AdminNosy, 11-18-2004 05:55 PM