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Is America losing its religion?
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Is Religion Just a Cult Plus Time?
I've been talking a lot about the difference between religion and faith. And what we call faith, that is this sort of impulse towards spiritual thinking, is older than our species. We have material evidence of that kind of behavior and belief going all the way back to Neanderthals. So, yeah, religion was created with the purpose of controlling populations. It's never been divorced from that and it never will be.
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