Joe Henrik on the Role of Religion in the Western World

I was raised as a Catholic, but became an atheist around the age of 15 or 16. I've had this real sea change in recent years where I've come to appreciate the role that religion plays for better and sometimes for worse. But I think that new atheism has certainly gone astray in its vociferousness in tone, but also its complete out of hand dismissal of religion in its substance. Joe Henrik argues that the church's abolition of cousin marriage set the Western world on a pathway to free markets.