Closeted atheist clergy and our new age of radical transparency
A naturalistic explanation of religion?
Kids believe what their parents tell them.
Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, God.
Parents tell them a lot of rot, themselves believing or pretending to believe what their parents told them, or what power insists on.
Not very different from a correct naturalistic explanation of morals, though you might not realize it from the various quite different explanations for these social phenomena offered by persons of scientific expertise.
Explain gullibility.
Explain lying.
Explain coercion.
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