The Legacy of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
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Is Religion the Predictor of Altruism?
Religious people are more likely to give to charity and do voluntary work. Professor of sociology at harvard says this is due to the power of religion to create communities. This sounds dangeresly like a darwinist argument, that religion has survived because actually it provides something for human survival. I would never be party to such a claim. We know that people who saved lives, often at risks of their own, during the holocost, some were religious, some were secular. And i think that moral sense is common to allus.
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