Today’s Green Thought is from the 1989 book ‘Our Kind– who we are, where we came from & where we are going’ by the American anthropologist Marvin Harris (from the chapter ‘’How the non-killing religions spread’).
Interestingly enough, once it was discovered that killing humans on behalf of the state could be reconciled with doctrines of the sacredness of all life, even butterflies and cows, the followers of the new faiths turned out to be a cut above the average soldiers, for they went into battles convinced that their souls would be rewarded if they died in combat.
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