RE: Why is religion especially Christianity so widely practied?
February 5, 2019 at 8:50 am
(This post was last modified: February 5, 2019 at 8:54 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Contemporary theories of religion posit that costly rituals exclude free-riders. Cost, not just in terms of financial resources, but also socio-temporal. The notion is that religion is a product subject to economic forces which seeks to maximize utility in this life (and any proposed afterlife), the club buy in meant to separate those committed from those who merely seek to extract utility from the group identity. To make a long story short, it's a negotiation between believing and belonging.
That suspicion can be seen on full display in the comments above.
That suspicion can be seen on full display in the comments above.
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