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By Robert Wright July 30, 2009.
If you think religion is bad today, think about what it was like in prehistoric times when everything was explained by the supernatural.
“A forceful shaman of established reputation may…command penance. An apparently common atonement is for the shaman to direct an allegedly erring woman to have intercourse with him (his supernatural power counteracts the effects of her sinning).”
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