Monkeying around with religion

apes angels Monkeying around with religionAccording to this story in the online zine, Salon (Religious primates), religion is a meme — “an idea that evolved like a virus — that infected our ancestors and continued to spread throughout cultures.” Give it a quarter turn, and another way to say the same thing is that all being in the universe have a hardwired need to experience the sacred as a group, because each of us are cells in the body of . . . call it Christ, call it the Buddha, call it whatever you want :)
* Crank Watch: scientist claims there is no God [EurekaAlert]
* Survey: God ‘most loved’ in Filipino poll [Manila Bulletin]
* Bong hits for Jesus to go to U.S. Supreme Court [AP]

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