RE: Why people are religious
January 8, 2016 at 9:03 am
(This post was last modified: January 8, 2016 at 9:09 am by The Grand Nudger.)
It appears to be a compulsion that's been with us as long as we've been "us". We have believing brains, and we are rewarded (both environmentally and internally) for the ritual behaviors and propositions that, added together, are called religion when they reference a god. IMO, "god" and religion back-doored our biology. It's an alternative expression of traits which arose for other (less magical) applications.
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