Group expansion drives religion toward moral, demanding, interventionist gods
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- As groups grow, moral enforcement and religion become intertwined. (similarity 0.84)
- Priming thoughts of God makes believers favor their own religious group (similarity 0.83)
- Religion is an evolved device enabling groups to function as adaptive units (similarity 0.82)
- Supernatural watchers and rituals jointly forged large-scale moral communities (similarity 0.81)
- Big Gods and costly rituals coevolved to enhance cooperation and outcompete rivals (similarity 0.80)
- Secular societies now compete against religiously organized cooperation (similarity 0.80)
- Religious groups expand through higher fertility rates, not just persuasion (similarity 0.80)
- The Church’s moral language structured who counted as monstrous others (similarity 0.80)
- The religious-belief explanation for intergroup violence remains scientifically untested. (similarity 0.80)
- Religious fundamentalism’s demographic growth will reshape the secular West (similarity 0.79)
- Political movements must engage the religious terrain where religion is the dominant ideological domain. (similarity 0.79)
- Group cultural dominance depends on conversions and fertility, not just longevity (similarity 0.79)
- Big Gods were necessary but not sufficient for group expansion. (similarity 0.79)
- Doctrine of a people’s divine origin erased internal differences among its members (similarity 0.79)
- Religion drives intergroup conflict through three mutable pathways, not belief alone (similarity 0.79)