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Re:20Y study finds little evidence religiosity leads to grea... by Darmody on Saturday October 23, 2021 @05:28PM (#28972480) 

    People didn't adopt that principle because religion told them to, they adopted it because it allowed them to outcompete the primitive societies that didn't.
But the divine nature of mankind makes that commandment more powerful because, one, you're killing God's creation and, two, it directly comes from God. It is not a simple "yeah, lets agree on that".
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Re:20Y study finds little evidence religiosity leads to grea... by xabotage on Saturday October 23, 2021 @06:57PM (#28973191)
In the end it's just falsely attributing divinity to pro-social human programming developed over millennia of natural selection. Religion came much later than pro-social behavior, and in fact it more resembles "let's agree on that": When it serves you, quote the bible verses that forbid killing, and when it serves you, quote the verses that justify killing indiscriminately.
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Re:20Y study finds little evidence religiosity leads to grea... by Darmody on Sunday October 24, 2021 @05:09PM (#28981941)
That's what I used to think.

I'm not so sure anymore.

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