Comment by Araina on June 4, 2011 at 11:53pm

Standford University Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences Robert Sapolsky on the Psychology, History, and Evolution of Religion.  I recommend all of his videos on Youtube.

Comment by Sarah on June 5, 2011 at 6:57am

Very interesting. I often think about the origin of religion and what were those people thinking. Mental illness does come to mind.

Comment by surgoshan on June 5, 2011 at 2:39pm

Very interesting; I'd been thinking of religion in terms of memetic drift, but that mental disorders can, under the right circumstances, contribute greatly to religion is simultaneously fascinating and disturbing.  Possibly even explicative.

Comment by Steve on June 5, 2011 at 3:17pm

Actually, some of the core Christian beliefs were decided on by committee. Early Christian churches were highly diverse and sometimes believed in radically different things. Then there were councils that decided that they were heresies and wiped them out

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