(Um, what's the difference?)
Or, some lack noticed therein by some enterprising charlatan....
What came first, the god or the need for it? And what _is_ the need for
it? I don't got it. Did proto-man, really? Or has the inrush of culture
and the class system coming with it created this survival mechanism? Do
_you_ need a god to survive? No, you bloody well don't. Does a culture?
Well, some of 'em do, especially the ones with priests....
Gee, I wonder why that is...?
Looking at the products of culture is an interesting pursuit from an
archival/anthropologic point of view, but it's patently useless for
finding a gene or a meme, in the same way looking at the box score of a
baseball game is patently useless for finding a hot dog.
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