That Old-Time Religion | The Illustrated Guide to Law

Posted on March 10, 2020 by Nathan

When agricultural societies formed tribes and clans, we discovered piety, prayer, and the patriarchy. Here's how!

Piety, prayer, and the patriarchy—all in one go! I wonder what’s next.

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kwxx says

In the new reality pane (8th from the bottom), you have “every four four years”.

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- Nathan says
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  Good catch! That seems to be the the most common type of typo I commit.
  
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  - kwxx says
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    So, did you mean “eight” or did you mean “forty-four”? Or ” four point four”? ;-)
    
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Bobibebu says

I’m curious – how do modern sociologists know how this all played out? Given all of this happened before written text, would this just be an inference made from what artifacts we could find?

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- RD says
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  Yes. Citations please. Its ok if your citations are to books that have the citations.
  
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Tomn says

You wanted a suggestion for the missing image? A man of flame receiving the veneration of his descendants before him, while behind him stretches a long chain of his ancestors, also in flame, with their hands on the shoulders of those in front of them.

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- Nathan says
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  Woo, that sounds pretty cool!
  
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