
Why Are Most Humans Religious? Professor Robin Dunbar
ROCKING OUR PRIORS
Are Religions Changing Over Time?
After the axial age, after a period of trade, development and social stratification, those religions actually legitimized hierarchy. They legitimized low-preservitude in the case of the Hindu caste system,. Under Zoroastrianism, a third of sins concern female sexuality. So aren't those religions fundamentally different? What they're doing is legitimizing despotic rule, they're legitimizing inequalities. And that's what God ordained and that's what we should do.
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