ok so the main evolutionary hack of religions is that theyre unfalsifiable and exclusively authoritative right so you can imagine what happens in an environmental niche that suddenly goes unfilled
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eigenrobot Retweeted Handwaving Freakoutery
i read maybe a third of this in a scattered way and that is what I took from ithttps://twitter.com/Freakoutery/status/1384527531903176705?s=19 …
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i’d go a step beyond and say with mary douglas that it’s just an application of the universal clean/unclean distinction. for basically all traditional societies, the outgroup is unclean.pic.twitter.com/3Eal0PQJ5E
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point being, i don’t believe that people are truly tabula rasa. clean/unclean is innate along with other things.
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