For the purveyor of snake oil, the fruits of other peoples legitimate labours (Contracycle, #4)
Secular rant.
Religion is a quick and easy way to get a moral system going in order to have a working society.(Lam, #7)
Show me a quick and easy religion ?
Unheard of cults do not count.
when those individuals are faithful and are working together cohesively, the group or society will be stronger and better protected from outside threats (Thor, #49)
Logical.
Religion if anything provides justification for genocide. (Quetzal, #76)
Then what excuse did the Marxists of the Soviet Union, China, and Southeast Asia have ? (100 million murdered in the 20th century)
Of course, Marxist is a euphemism in this case.
relatively stupid, unified people, fearing things and avoiding what they do not understand as opposed to taming them (in both physical and philosophical terms)may well be better equipped for the stoicism required for survival (Sisyphus, #82)
Predictible Darwinian rant.
males are dominant and aggressive and try to find ways to control the females ... some religions have formed ways to "control" females. (PerfectDeath, #92)
But if we descend from apes/gorillas.....
sex usually works for me to reduce anxiety, (and maybe for the bonobos too?) ... one wonders how close "religious experience" is to sexual physionomic response ... (RAZD, #132)
As old as the prostitutes who gave themself in the Temple of Diana.
RM