Fact that interest in religion declines as societies get rich suggests main gain from religion is to help deal with stressful situations that happen a lot more to the poor.
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Can you tell this in small-brain words for me?
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Robin has said "as X declines, Y declines". I agree. He has just described behavior "at the margin". Basically "slope of the curve at the area being studied".https://www.econlib.org/library/Topics/College/margins.html …
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What is another plausible explanation of the poverty religion correlation?
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I am entirely willing to accept the causal mechanism! It's just that you are describing something happening at the margin, and so saying that the MAIN gain from religion is "helps stress from poverty" is not even wrong. Perhaps 80% of the gain from religion is X, 20% is that.
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