"Not one region of Earth has been spared from having a past which was filled with religious intolerance."
well obivously - but how much of a miracle is it for old civilizations to develop norms of religious tolerance?
incidentally the worst modern religions are those that don't claim to be a religion and so feel exempted from having to practice tolerance
why did monotheism win?
@amir Instead of living in the demon haunted world where you have to sacrifice to 20 gods, you sacrifice to one.
Reflects advances in epistemology too, we live in something much more like the monotheistic universe than polytheistic.
what if I like the demon-haunted world better (or, I don't consider the demons demons)?
is it plausible that monotheism-driven "advances in epistemology" only served to obfuscate this reality (which still exists) instead of illuminating it?
