Why big societies need big gods

[Mark Kohut]

I once read a kind of neo--Marxist, I guess we would call him,  who
showed how Priests/Shamans, etc.
could only be allowed to exist---fed and kept---and any temples built
by the excess of subsistence
living by the people offered to them.



On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 2:20 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://news.sciencemag.org/archaeology/2015/08/feature-why-big-societies-need-big-gods
>
> Wealth may have driven the rise of today’s religions
>
> http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2014/12/wealth-may-have-driven-rise-today-s-religions
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