Short [religion]
- What’s the thinking agnostic to do now? [free Salon day pass needed for non-subscribers].
- Richard Dawkins on what the use of religion might be.
Is religion a medical placebo, which prolongs life by reducing stress? Perhaps, although the theory is going to have to run the gauntlet of skeptics who point out the many circumstances in which religion increases stress rather than decreases it. In any case, I find the placebo theory too meager to account for the massive and all-pervasive phenomenon of religion.
[x]#761 fan maandag 6 september 2004 @ 19:45:43
