Hi Billy,

> On Nov 20, 2018, at 9:50 AM, Billy Rojas <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> You present your thesis as if it was foundational, all about the origins
> of religion.  But from what I know it really is about religion a few steps
> after the foundation era.  Which is perfectly OK but this means that
> the leverage your are looking for is only partly in the factors you
> have identified.


That’s a great point.  I wonder if a better term is “culture”, since that both 
precedes and survives religion, even if for most of human history religion as 
central to culture.

In fact, I was thinking of refuting Aristotle by claiming that humans are 
“cultural animals”, with culture defined as “adaptive mimesis” (a la Girard), 
with rationality merely one aspect of adaptation and language one form of 
mimesis.

E

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