Re: playing at suicide

From: Wade T. Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 10 2002 - 14:14:49 GMT

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    On 01/10/02 02:26, Philip Jonkers said this-

    >I doubt if it will ever be
    >feasible, all the more since it seems that religion
    >is ingrained in the human brain.

    Is it religion that is ingrained, or the mechanisms that allow religion
    to flourish? I suspect the latter, and that religion has endured only
    because it is a facile set of conditions to set up and maintain.

    But, yes, it is hard to eliminate the easy.

    - Wade

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