Religion's conceptual shape-shifting is maybe its survival mechanism at work

[All Along The Watchtower]

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more: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2014/feb/14/religions-shape-shifting-survival-mechanism-work

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Hardly news to Anthropologists.

Oh, and 'religions' don't have survival mechanisms, people do.

John Wilkins actually wrote today a good blog post on this very topic

[DemPGH]

Seems to me that religion always seeks to explain what is beyond knowledge, so we arrive at the God of the Gaps, I think. So religions are dependent upon issues every linked to knowledge. How do people fill in gaps? That's the big question.

It's not what you "know" that's beyond knowledge, but how you know it. Then there's the whole issue about religions giving order to society as well, so when you put the two together you can understand religions pretty well, IMO.