Status Updates From Big Gods: How Religion Tran...

Costly requirements in religion/sects (rules on diet, donations, marriage) is correlated with longer lasting communes. But is that just because people who are more likely to conform in the first place are going to be more dedicated? If I don't believe in something it doesn't matter whether the cost is £5 or £100, I wouldn't give it. And then there's the sunk cost - even if you stop believing, you've invested so much.

Enjoying this! Easy to read, well explained, and the author has not got anything factually wrong so far (that I am aware of, which at least spares me the annoyance). Intrigued to see if this goes beyond the idea of supernatural surveillance to other motivations of good behaviour.