Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

in advertising

factual

making you free

objective

of physics

as sacred value

sacrifices made for

science as not having monopoly on

as transcendent value

Turkey

Turkish language

Turner, Denys

type-token terminology

Twain, Mark

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ultimate values

uncertainty, religious belief in facing

unconscious selection

understanding, belief versus

unicorns

Unitarianism

universalism, imperialist

urban legends

used-car salesmen

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values

atheists seen as lacking

“family, ”

instrumental

intrinsic

sacred

summum bonum

transcendent

ultimate

variation

Varieties of Religious Experience, The (James)

Vatican City

Vatican

Vedic texts

Venus (planet)

vertebrates

virus(es)

computer

religious memes likened to

RNA

specie likened to

terrorism as

Vishnu

visions

VMAT2 gene

Voltaire

von Neumann multiplexing

voting

vultures

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Waco (Texas)

Wahhabism

walking on bed of coals

walking trees

Wamp, Zach

wars

as bringing out the best in people

holy versus secular

as natural

religion justifying sacrifice in

religious

“righteous,”

in science’s development'

“weakest link” phenomenon

weather prediction

Weber, Max

Weinberg, Steven

West Bank settlers

“What Shall We Tell the Children?”(Humphrey)

whatsis center

Whitehouse, Harvey

Why Christianity Must Change or Die (Spong)

Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief (Newberg, D’Aquili, and Rouse)

Wicca

Wiesel, Elie

Williams, George

Wilson, Charles E.

Wilson, David Sloan

Wirth, Daniel

Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande (Evans-Pritchard)

witch doctors. See shamans witches

witnessing

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Wolf, Frank

Wolfe, Alan

wonder

Wonder Woman

Word, the

in the beginning was

Bible as

Jesus as

as Number One

spreading

words

abstractness of

changes in

digitization in

as information packets

inventing

natural selection of

Wordsworth, William

workaholics

World Bank

World Changers Church

World Trade Center

writing

Wynne, Thomas

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xenophobia

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Yahuuz example

Yahweh (Jehovah)

yeast

Young Earth creationists

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zealots

Zulus