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Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order that places some limits on individualism and egois...more

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Religiosity developed because successful religions made groups more efficient at turning resources into offspring." (including art, cathedrals, cities...more

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The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the 'American civil religion.' The president must invoke the name of God (tho...more

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When opponents of evolution object that human beings are not mere apes, they are correct. We are also part bee.

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Creating gods who can see everything, and who hate cheaters and oath breakers, turns out to be a good way to reduce cheating and oath breaking.

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The emotion of disgust evolved initially to optimize responses to the omnivore's dilemma. Individuals who had a properly calibrated sense of disgust w...more

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Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.