We are so cruel
Third, I have met the enemy and it is tribalism. I recently heard an interview with E.O. Wilson in which he was asked to react to the critiques of religion that Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins have famously been making. The problem isn’t religion, Wilson said, it’s tribalism. The two often coincide but they are not the same thing. Religion is not a pernicious force in the world. Tribalism is.
— I have met the enemy and it is tribalism This is good third-party confirmation of something I was trying to say a year ago about religion and violence (sparked by the original thread on Flutterby (I am now reminded that this was a response to something I wrote. I enjoy the back and forth.) Even if you were able to somehow eliminate all religion, people would find ways to group themselves. Some of those people would foment violence against the other “tribes”.