Religion was designed to handle a small scale social world, and is not terribly well adapted to handling a very large scale. It's surprisingly good at generalizing, but, you know, at the last turdle, it keeps failing. So almost all the sweeter protestant or churches, as we have them now, began life as small, carismatic sects with ecstatic experiences,. Sometimes they take off, and they give rise to brand new major religions. And that actually nicely brings this full circle. Because another part of the why religion evolved, theory that you have is is this idea of understanding other people's minds. By just wanting to put that hadn ther ther. Lots of

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