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To: GPS Info who wrote (208235)	11/11/2006 5:31:38 PM
From: Noel de Leon	Respond to of 281500

"As I state in an earlier post, Christianity message was to cooperate, not be greedy (or envious or prideful) and to find an alternative to violent solutions. If sex is thrown into the mix, then we shouldn’t make it the center of our lives, but find a healthy balance. Clearly, all this is easier said than done." The problem with Christianity(and all other religions) is that their goal is to insure that the specific group survives, not the species. The genetic explanation might be hampered by a genetic xenophobia. And then again it might not. This is the post that we are discussing. We are not discussing xenophobia in a wider sense. Your point that xenophobia does not preclude value sets is correct but I never wrote otherwise. I'm asking a simple question about why religions came about and answered it with the idea that genetically we are programmed to cooperate which expresses itself as religion in order to reinforce the genetic effect. I then ask the question(indirectly) as to the possibility of a genetic xenophobia which might explain why homogenous groups react in hostile ways towards other groups that don't look like them.