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Originally, gods were tribal rally points, like a totem or an emblem. Even to this day, in rural areas of the US, the church is the rallying point of a community, a center where the people come together and bond and forge alliances. A social network.

7:18 PM · Mar 12, 2019Twitter Web Client

antoine sugar

@joedan346

Mar 12, 2019

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Should be "tribal rallying points" in above tweet

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in my country churches were built around the oldest tribal gathering trees, it was tradition to make treaties and promises only in front of the famous tree of the town, even today some regional politicians still go to be in front of the tree to swear office there

antoine sugar

@joedan346

Mar 13, 2019

There ya go. Gods are essentially tribal spirits, the spirit of the tribe. When that spirit wanes, the tribe also declines. You see that in the Christian West today, the decline in the unity and integrity of the body politic.