If you haven’t noticed yet, Im very evolution oriented. I happen to be an atheist. But I have to accept that one sees religion and religious behavior in every fucking society, from scandinavians to australian aborigines, and that is probably indicative of a positve adaptation. I mean, if it was bad for human societies to worship the sky father, why does every fucking society worship the sky father? Maybe it’s what works. And if you are prepared to die for your tribe because you believe you will go to valhalla and drink mead with the gods forever, might that not confer survival on the local gene pool? I think even as we begin to reject older religions, we are forming new ones that are arguably as irrational as the old ones. *Government is magic. Black people are victims of invisible racism which makes them poor and violent. Babies are only real people after they pass through the vagina.* These are all new superstitious beliefs that dont seem to require any evidence to be accepted among the devout. I have no doubt that these beliefs are useful to certain groups of people who promote them.