Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection tribe competing against tribe and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
I've been on enough sports teams in my life to have experienced the magic of what can happen when a group of people care for and love each other.
I come from a background of hanging out with friends and shooting videos with them with funny stuff coming out of the group. I guess we got the same charge jocks get out of sports.
I am very slow to warm. I've always been sort of a loner. I didn't play team sports. I am better one-on-one than in big groups.
I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived.
The farther a society progresses the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.
Before a group can enter the open society it must first close ranks.
These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether like an army or an orchestra they function as a single body or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.
A free society will abide unofficial private discrimination even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.
Because we believe that our ethnic group our society our political party our God is better than your God we kill each other.