
Originally Posted by
Banquo's Ghost
Although the historical evidence is that religion causes groups of people who identify with each other's beliefs to be considerably more beastly to those who do not so identify.
One might well be happier in one's peer group, but there doesn't seem to be much evidence that those outside the peer group feel safer or happier if they are in a minority. The two may well be related, as human groups feel better when there is an "us" and a "them".
Amusingly, this appears to apply to atheists too - the militant versions of which have adopted the same intolerance of different belief systems and a similar rhetoric of condemnation.
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