What Science Can Learn from Religion

Religious traditions offer a rich store of ideas about what human beings are like and how they can satisfy their deepest moral and social needs. Yet it is hubristic to assume that religious thinkers who have grappled for centuries with the workings of the human mind have never discovered anything of interest to scientists studying human behavior. I have found that religious ideas about human behavior and how to influence it, though never worthy of blind embrace, are sometimes vindicated by scientific examination.

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