We Need a Healthy Groupishness, Not a Fake Trinity

i think our national partisan hysteria and tribalism is partly a function s that we don't have healthy groupishness at the local level where people actually live. i grew up without much religious practice, and i'm not a religious person myself. And so it was tempting for me to blame religion and the way that some of the new atheists at in two thousandsf a lot of e evil in the world. But i now think tha too short sighted in too important ways. It's only one of many different ways in which humans can fulfil that instant. You take religion away, or you're going to replace it with another set of criteria for saying, we a and and end ure