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There was a pretty good podcast[0] (Hidden Brain) a while back that explores one possibility for why religions sprang up all over the world. The idea was that o
by craftyguy 8y ago
There was a pretty good podcast[0] (Hidden Brain) a while back that explores one possibility for why religions sprang up all over the world. The idea was that once communities grew too large for folks to know everyone, there needed to be something which two complete strangers in a community could relate to, with sufficient punishment for committing moral, ethical, etc crimes, for those communities to function. They also discuss how modern communities have less of a need for this. It's definitely an interesting topic, and my description didn't really do it justice.
0. https://www.npr.org/2018/07/16/628792048/creating-god https://www.npr.org/2018/07/16/628792048/creating-god