[extropy-chat] My reply to WJ Smith’s “Give Me That New Transhumanist Religion”

[Keith Henson]

At 11:16 AM 1/4/2007 -0500, Bret K. wrote:

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>Why people continue to need to glom religion onto everything is very 
>disturbing. They can't accept that things can exist without it, so they 
>apply it with a wide brush.

I think it is even more disturbing if you figure out why people have 
religions at all.

Religions have functions and one of them it to hype up the warriors before 
they go out to kill neighbors.

Keith