Worshipping Waterfalls: The Evolution of Belief
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Big Gods Facilitate a Co Operation Among Strangers
Humanity is entering into larger and larger communities facilitated by men of the kind of co operation that big gods allow. I mean, i would think that you can have some bad faith actors undermine that. You can have some people fake faith, for instance, and pretend to be religious in order to gain some kind of onor advantage. What prevents that from happening? That's a great question. And these societies have developed very ways to cope or deal with this. So one possible solution is to require the faithful to basically walk the walk, and not just to talk to talk.
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