The reason religion plays such an influential part in our lives is because extinction would have ended our species if it were not for religion. It also gives us hope that our children don't actually die, but have gone to a far better place called heaven. Such a place had to have a God, and at the time, we had plenty. We are all, without exception, behaviorally programmed. We are all, to a greater or lesser degree, behaviorally manipulated. And we are all, to some extent, mind-poisoned and controlled by early suggestion and example. Extreme manipulation is called radicalization, which is an...
The reason religion plays such an influential part in our lives is because extinction would have ended our species if it were not for religion. It als...