Scientific evidence suggests that fear of divine punishment encourages social cooperation

“Religion,” the late Christopher Hitchens loved to assert, “poisons everything.”

It was a silly statement.

And now along comes still more (redundant) evidence that Mr. Hitchens was spectacularly wrong:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-11/fear-of-god-helped-societies-expand-study-finds/7155696

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