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If religion were a glue to bind disparate people, wouldn't religious communes prove successful while secular ones failed? Yet both types fail.
by stephengillie 14y ago
If religion were a glue to bind disparate people, wouldn't religious communes prove successful while secular ones failed? Yet both types fail.
- DonPellegrino 14y agoThe article makes it clear that religious ones lasted much longer.
- s_baby 14y agoCommunes are a tribal configuration. Religion is a source of success because it lets people expand beyond tribal society.
- 1010011010 14y agoIt's a way of extending the "tribe" to large numbers of strangers?
- s_baby 14y agoTribes max out in size around 50 people. They also tend to participate in tribal warfare with those not of their kin. Religion lets people join together around a common belief rather than a common bloodline.