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What Does Probability Have to Do With Religion?

Doctors hade native contribution, as is, realize that anything that took you away from ta doctor to satisfy your illusion of control was good for you. And there again, religion isit just neutral. Aka, it was helpful. Any religion, just ta tempo, going to the temple of apollo. So i realized it tookYou away from te doctor. So that's another function of religion. And e somting analyzing or looking atat this error we have in believing that religion is about beliefand and no, religion is about commitment, is about the system. Is about living in something. Because our beliefs, in the end, get us some trouble. We're not good fort

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