tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4138458.post3349166251079956200..comments2024-02-23T13:15:42.158+13:00Comments on Dissecting Leftism: JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4138458.post-11852580281930855162010-02-19T16:28:01.744+13:002010-02-19T16:28:01.744+13:00Re "How Did Religion Evolve" your "...Re "How Did Religion Evolve" your "fundamental need to understand" is really an outgrowth of what is now considered a fundamental "seek reflex" which appears universal to all life forms. Just watch a dog sniff around, or a fish, or an ant. They are always blindly seeking, as are we. Religion would appear to provide the definitive answers sought to important questions that really have no answer.<br /><br />Paul in Dana PointPaul Kochendorfernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4138458.post-77437055517239566582010-02-19T00:58:26.924+13:002010-02-19T00:58:26.924+13:00I note the article, "How Did Religion Evolve&...I note the article, "How Did Religion Evolve" and, without getting into any discussion about my personal beliefs, I must state that most of these studies suffer from a couple of basic defects. The first is that they examine the attitudes and behaviour of members of advanced modern religion, particularly monotheistic ones, when they should be examining the religions of hunter gatherers - or whatever should be assumed to be the earliest form of religion. Secondly, it is not much point in comparing the attitudes and reactions of the religious and the non-religious when the latter have been raised in a culture seeped in religion (and all cultures are), whose basic assumptions they are likely to have absorbed without noticing it.Malcolmnoreply@blogger.com