Secular societies now compete against religiously organized cooperation
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- Prosocial religious cohesion inherently requires excluding nonbelievers from trust (similarity 0.84)
- Cooperation-focused strategies fail where conditions for cooperation are themselves absent (similarity 0.82)
- Cooperation can operate independently of trust (similarity 0.81)
- A social formation is a complex unity structured in dominance, not an expressive totality. (similarity 0.81)
- Cooperation requires at least one party’s essential action beyond the other’s control. (similarity 0.80)
- Group expansion drives religion toward moral, demanding, interventionist gods (similarity 0.80)
- Secular societies can coexist with religion through state separation. (similarity 0.80)
- The religious-nonreligious dichotomy only makes sense within Western dualistic society. (similarity 0.80)
- Cohesion and trust check government power, not merely establish social order (similarity 0.79)
- Secular societies climbed the ladder of religion and then kicked it away (similarity 0.79)
- Political movements must engage the religious terrain where religion is the dominant ideological domain. (similarity 0.79)
- Church-state conflict after 1861 pushed the church toward local mafia alliances (similarity 0.79)
- Secular cooperative societies emerged through institutions that displaced religion (similarity 0.79)
- Religion-driven intergroup conflict persists against secularization predictions. (similarity 0.79)
- Big Gods and costly rituals coevolved to enhance cooperation and outcompete rivals (similarity 0.79)