Jordan Peterson, Nicholas Nassim Taleb and other popular thinkers contend that even if gods don’t exist, we still need religion, because it evolved to protect us from harms we don’t understand. I wrote about why they are wrong.
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Sosis does try to answer this, suggesting for example that rituals acted like handicapping systems that signaled one's commitment to the group. But there isn't much evidence that this is true, which is why I didn't mention it.
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Interesting, haven't read Sosis. Can see that being part of it, Could simple be: ritual being a way of keeping the society together though. Bring the group together at periods to reaffirm that 'religious feeling'. Without ritual, would not have feeling of obligation to group.
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Totemic religions are not amoral, they just do not have personified gods! Durkheim would say that morality stems from the profane/sacred distinction. It is 'immoral' to kill the sacred animal, or for a woman to touch the churringa, etc. Morality stems from this
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