[Buddha-l] Conceiving God: The Cognitive Origin and Evolution of Religion

[Joy Vriens]

Sorry wrong battle (again) for me too. The quotation was from Grayling
not Lewis-Williams.

Joy

> "I would wish people to live without superstition, to govern their
> lives with reason, and to conduct their relationships on reflective
> principles about what we owe one another as fellow voyagers through
> the human predicament – with kindness and generosity wherever
> possible, and justice always. None of this requires religion or the
> empty name of “god”. Indeed, once this detritus of our ignorant past
> has been cleared away, we might see more clearly the nature of good,
> and pursue it aright at last."