Imagine a World of Religions that Naturalism Might Indeed Be Able to Explain

Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker recently told CNN, "We don't throw virgins into volcanoes any more."

No? Why not?

Regarding the phenomenon of religion, here are two curious things: When naturalists (materialists) study religion, they get so many basic facts wrong, one wonders why they bother, except to bolster their own view. Second, they mainly study "revealed" religion, where the world is interpreted through a divine message (or some would say, an acute insight), revealing a higher order...