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  • This book posited, at least in my mind, that religion and government (large government) are needed to create a member of a culture willing to die for the group. The author noted that in small bands and tribes the form of warfare boiled down to two types:

    1) ambush
    2) overwhelming force

    This minimized the chance that a member of the band would get wounded and/or die. This is because he member was extremely valuable and necessary to the survival of the group. A loss of one member emperiled the whole band.

    That may be an chicken/egg argument but I thought it was an interesting one. Conventional warfare requires that the group can lose individuals and that endanger the survival of the group. The individuals have to be willing to die for the group as well. So a reason has to be given. While the author didn't specifically state that this is a reason for religion to come about, I do think it is an interesting idea.

    Morality could have existed before religion but maybe once you have a religion or structure to promote individual sacrifice and an afterlife as a reward the religion starts promoting itself?

    Then again I could just be rambling.
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