“A common explanation is that we imagine person-like agents who rule our destinies because this produces a reassuring view of our existence and the world around us. We project human features onto nonhuman aspects of our world because that makes these aspects more familiar and therefore less frightening.”
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Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought
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Pascal Boyer
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