> Richard Brodie wrote:
> >That is religion for the masses, not a council of elders.
>
> In which environment would a 'council of elders' style religion have a
> greater survivability than a religion for the masses?
> Which selective conditions make a religion based on studying and
> debating dominant over dumb religion based on emotional preachings for
> mobs?
> it's too polarized but please handle it anyway.
Terraform the masses!
This is probably a long-term project, and contrary to the Taoist
prescriptions for stable government [hmm...]:
If the masses are intellectual, we lose the above distinction.
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