[lbo-talk] The atheist delusion

[Miles Jackson]

John Thornton wrote:
> Religion can easily, and in my mind more plausibly, be described as a 
> by-product of human minds.
>
>   
Or more precisely: a by-product of social interactions.  A mind cannot 
build a church or conduct a baptism; it is through social interactions 
that religion becomes an important social institution.  (A banal point 
once it occurs to you, but an important thing to keep in mind when 
people bring up the ever-popular "let's explain social conditions in 
terms of individual psychology" trope.) 

Miles