I would suspect that much of the "us vs. them" mentality that many religions have is an evolutionary relic leftover from our tribal ancestors. Survival depended upon banding with your tribe and viewing all the others as the enemy. I'm sure when religions were first evolving into the structure that we see today, it was beneficial(and probably natural) to group people into those two categories, the righteous(your tribe) and the evil(the others).
Simply put, we're struggling to free ourselves from our evolutionary shackles that cause us to see the world as "us vs. them," and naturally, god is always going to side with the "us."
Simply put, we're struggling to free ourselves from our evolutionary shackles that cause us to see the world as "us vs. them," and naturally, god is always going to side with the "us."
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
