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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but perhaps a different slice through the state space, comparing two cultures of equal wealth but different amounts of foreign raiders and warlords, we might find that the marginal value of religion is small unit cohesion
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and it would be wrong in the first example to move from "marginal value" to "MAIN value", and it would be wrong in the second example to move from "marginal value" to "MAIN value"
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