It seems like something you can easily accept as being true. I'm not even religious but like I don't get what about those things are like causing an issue in people's minds. Why cant god exist as one supernatural being and Jesus still be divine or like if Allah is unique and unknowable and omnipotent why can't he still give rise to the world. Also not sure if this is on the author but I also don't get how the things highlighted as paradoxes are actually contradictory? Like I've heard of the "contradictions" and issues with theology before outside of this book and it has never made sense to me honestly. I think the cognitive biases are more than enough to explain the emergence of religion, regardless of if you are or are not religious, but he kind of brushes off them being the sole explanation without justifying why in a convincing manner. The thing though is that a lot of these ideas the author says aren't sound but then he doesn't make convincing case for why not. It presented a few theories for the emergence of religion and the universal presence of religion in human societies. This was a really interesting book about how religion emerged or formed through human history.
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