Is religion adaptive or maladaptive?

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@Desert_Dumpster

I believe that’s Michael Shermer’s thesis, that religion is an artifact/side effect of something that is adaptive, i.e., the programming in small children that makes them accept everything that their parents say as true without question. Useful in a dangerous world.

Michael Shermer apparently has never met many of the small children that I’ve met. Small children that I’ve known often disagree with their parents.