05 Jul '11 05:28>
Originally posted by sonhouseA cult of Judaism you mean?
I hate to burst your bubble but Christianity is itself a cult. Billions of deluded members for sure, but a cult nonetheless.
Originally posted by Proper KnobMichael Shermer goes into even greater detail in "How We Believe."
[b]It is interesting to me that apparently there actually IS a "religious gene", wiring sensitivity to religious feeling/expression into the brain. One then asks, why?
The simple answer for the evolutionist is that somehow this gene gave people a survival advantage. The other alternative is that maybe this gene got 'carried' by another gene. We kn ...[text shortened]... the ride.
Dawkin's goes into this in greater detail in 'The God Delusion'.[/b]