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Creating God

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Does Religion Contribute to Our Warlike Nature?

Scott atron has found that religiously inspired islamic state fighters are single minded. Critics of religion sometimes point to such fanatical behaviour and say, look, this is evidence that there's something wrong with religious faith. Psychologist azim sherif says such ism miss the point. "Religion does contribute to our warlike nature, but it does so in a very adaptive, culturally adaptive way"...

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