The Church’s moral language structured who counted as monstrous others

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• Prosocial religious cohesion inherently requires excluding nonbelievers from trust (similarity 0.81)
• Even self-professed believers intuit God as mainly monitoring negative moral acts (similarity 0.81)
• Priming thoughts of God makes believers favor their own religious group (similarity 0.80)
• Group expansion drives religion toward moral, demanding, interventionist gods (similarity 0.80)
• Moral characters of trustworthiness can make people trust even against reason. (similarity 0.79)
• The Church’s moral discipline manufactured the monstrous Other (similarity 0.79)
• Supernatural watchers and rituals jointly forged large-scale moral communities (similarity 0.79)
• Medieval writers classified Muslim followers as monstrous races and devil minions. (similarity 0.78)
• Monstrous figures decorated manuscript edges as moralizations of non-Christian sinfulness. (similarity 0.78)