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Pascal Boyer

“Having concepts of gods and spirits does not really make moral rules more compelling but it sometimes makes them more intelligible. So we do not have gods because that makes society function. We have gods in part because we have the mental equipment that makes society possible but we cannot always understand how society functions.”

Pascal Boyer, Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought
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