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To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (52599)	7/7/2002 6:17:12 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) of 82486

I would prefer to think it was genetic. If it is genetic then most of us carry the wiring for it- and if we can activate that altruistic wiring and disable the tribe wiring, we can get along much better. If it is transcendental, we are screwed- because lots of people think they are tuned into something transcendental, unfortunately those transcendental things often make heroism necessary because of heroics on the other "side" from some other "tribe" who does not appreciate our transcendental ideas. So if religion is genetic it can be tweaked- and we CAN all get along. We could find some secular religion that tickles everybody's neurons. I find the prospect of one world, united altruistically, to be an ideal. I think it would be a lovely goal. We'd have to share much more than we do now (in the West) but if it was the new religion, people would have the impulse to do it for the great human tribe. One tribe, one world. We'll see. I'm no idealist. But a unifying religion from the secular side would have to be better, or at least worth a try, when I compare it to what we have now.

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