Across European history, religiosity correlates with poverty, violence from feudal lords, and infectious disease burden—the more hardship and disease, the higher the religiosity; this pattern continues worldwide.
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“the more poverty in a culture, the more violence from on high, usually top-down violence from the feudal lords, the more disease, infectious disease load, all of that, the higher the levels of religiosity.”
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