On Oct 3, 2005, at 5:40 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
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From: "Dave Land" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 7:13 PM
Subject: Re: The dark side of faith
Perhaps members of dysfunctional societies find solace in religion.
Dave "horse, cart", is not the same as "cart, horse" Land
Or, even old dying societies have different problems than younger
societies. :-)
Sure, that works, too. Or even that the same things (it's always
multivariate) that predispose a society to the dysfunctions described
in the article also predispose it to a higher level of religiosity.
What doesn't work for me is the assumption of causality and the
presumption that the direction of that causality is understood.
Dave
Or maybe the Devil[tm] is just messing with our minds :-).
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