Posted on 05/09/2016 11:38:52 AM PDT by sparklite2
Is religion about to die out? Growing wealth is causing belief in moralising gods to decline - and it could make it vanish entirely
Dr Baumard said: 'You are clearly at a disadvantage if you follow a slow strategy when others follow a faster strategy - if you are faithful when others grab sexual opportunities, if you forgive when others avenge, if you work when others have fun.
'This disadvantage incentivised the elite to morally condemn fast behaviours, in part by adopting and promoting the new religions that legitimised and reinforced a slow morality and promised punishment for trangressors.
'The same idea [growing wealth] could also explain the gradual decline of moralising religion in wealthier parts of the world such as Western Europe and the northern parts of North America.'
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The Christian Church has always flourished and thrived under persecution. There will always be a remnant. In
True enough. In 2014 the most popular baby name in London was Muhammad. Isn't it telling how Christian Europe stood for over a thousand years fending off Islamic incursions, while secularized Europe is voluntarily falling to Islam as we speak after a measly half-century or so? Gutless ideology, no moral compass or backbone. Pains me to say it, but Europe brought the impending Caliphate upon itself. Alas, Babylon.
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