To an extent - but individuals are just as capable of inventing sociopathic religious beliefs as groups. (View Post)

The quest to reduce the universe to linear rules is a pattern, endlessly repeated. See The Process State. Which seems to me, to be little different from The Religious State. (View Post)

Inevitable. (View Post)

"Suffering is good for the soul. Brother Amos is a heretic - he has hidden from God's rain under an umbrella." (View Post)

".... what we actually seek is a more comfy bed of nails." You'll never get into the Wee Free with an attitude like that. (View Post)