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

[Jim Peavler]

That's OK. It couldn't possibly have been from Lewis-williams. He is a paleoanthropologist. They don't like this.


On Apr 9, 2010, at 11:42 AM, Joy Vriens wrote:

> 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."
> 
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