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Originally Posted by Booger
This should come as no surprise to anyone. Without religious maps, the divergent and competing interests could never have coordinated their forces or harmonized their diverse interests. It wasn't secular ideals that built Gobekli Tepe or Stonehenge. It wasn't secular ideals that gave rise to the Vedic civilization or built the Mayan temples and cities. Of all the maps for living, the most creative, cohesive, stable, enduring and necessary are religious maps.
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http://forums.philosophyforums.com/t...aps-64183.html
An interesting discussion in the thread linked above. Covers the question you asked and a range of topics regarding the influence and/or incompetence of religion, specifically in the past.