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Again you make unsupported assumptions - that religion is the source of morality. Nonsense! Do you suggest that early groups of pre-literate, pre-priest infested humans had no morality or code of conduct? No one knew that stealing or screwing someone else's spouse was wrong prior to the invention of religion? Plenty of species have taboos similar to those adopted by humans in order to get along in a group. It doesn't take religion to know not to fuck with the silverback's mate, to avoid stealing the alpha wolf's leg of caribou, or to take steps to protect the weaker members of the group Religion was made up by members of the tribe who were smart enough to get out of the hard work by making up stories to explain what their pre-scientifc minds could not understand. And that's why religion is still so effective today.
