RE: WHY RELIGION?
February 25, 2019 at 2:19 pm
(This post was last modified: February 25, 2019 at 2:20 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
That religiosity increases as more and more basic needs go unmet seems to suggest that Bels appraisal of religion as providing them might be misframed. If religion actually could provide them, then those increasingly religious people wouldn't be in such a state of want in the first place.
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