Status Updates From Supernatural Selection: How...

The author is painting a picture I can't get on board with being in this post-Lutherian world we're living in. Interesting but nostalgia is deadly.

"As religion accommodates more and more to affluence, its members become progressively more indistinguishable in behavior and belief from their nonreligious neighbors."

"[T]rue altruism is a rarity; real sacrifice is a precious gem; genuine selflessness is not instinctual, but the product of hard-won effort. All the more reason to admire it when it does happen."
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Evolution agrees with Jesus 😳

"If religion's primary purpose was comfort . . . we could have wished for much better than the gods and myths we inherited."