Well, we don't really know that religion is purely a social construction. It could be biological, a social construction, even (gasp) true, some combination of the three, or something else.
That religion broadly defined is a human near-universal, like language, suggests it is not merely a contingent social construction.
--- Robert Wrubel <bobwrubel at yahoo.com> wrote:
> You're right on religion as a social construction,
> Mike, not an inner drive. But atheism can be a
> social construction, too, and fits in handily with
> certain strands of liberalism. Hitchens and Amis, at
> least, use it frequently to imply the dangerousness
> of Islamic culture.
>
> BobW
>
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