Quick post here - I thought I would share with you the linked post here from El Gato a couple of days ago. For one, it makes (in elaborated form) the same point I made in our last post, that DEI is filling a religious need people have (it fills that “slot in their heads”, he would say), and that it is only working on them because the influence of traditional religion on the minds of these same folks is now gone.
A book by Rodney Stark called Discovering God, published circa 2007, takes this "evolutionary perspective on religion." He, in part, discusses religions as offering certain things to their followers, and as competing in a religious marketplace.
A book by Rodney Stark called Discovering God, published circa 2007, takes this "evolutionary perspective on religion." He, in part, discusses religions as offering certain things to their followers, and as competing in a religious marketplace.