At 09:48 PM Saturday 2/23/2008, hkhenson wrote: >At 01:00 PM 2/23/2008, William T Goodall wrote: > > >Religion has a vested interest in discouraging critical thinking. > >I think it's *much* worse than that. > >In "Evolutionary Psychology, Memes and the Origin of War" I make a >case that the psychological trait(s) for religion arose as part of >the complex set of traits for wars. Religions are seed xenophobic >memes. In times where the population sees a bleak future, they become >more influential. Eventually they served to synch up the warriors >for a do or die attack on neighbors. Even though the warriors may >have died, the genes were always better off than starving. > >One of the effect of this complex of traits is to shut off rational >thinking. It's not rational at the personal level to go out and try >to kill neighbors, but in some circumstances the interest of a person >and their genes diverge. > >Religions give "reason" to take such chances. > >Keith
So where in this hypothesis do #s 5 through 10 of the Ten Commandments, the Second Great Commandment, and the Golden Rule fit? -- Ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
