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What is a religion?


What is the function of religion, regardless of the truth of religion?


Origin miths are widespread, not only in every tribal society but in modern state societies...

What is a religion?
What's similar and what's different between tribal religions and state religions?
When did religion begin?
What is the function of religion, regardless of the truth of religion?
How about guaranteeing you 50,000 converts to any arbitrary belief in the next 10 years for 50,000 dollars?
Can science be considered a religion?


Jared Diamond, professor of geography at UCLA, Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction in 1998.

Author: Asterisk, for AZ10.com ~ 23 Jun 2009





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