Fictional Worlds
But that’s not all. The same cognitive abilities that give us religion also allow us to ask why the world has to be the way it is (giving us science) and to imagine entirely fictional worlds (giving us literature). Thus, you could no more have a world where religion was cast aside as superstition than you could have one without science or stories. And that would be a very different world indeed.
A History of God by Karen Armstrong (Vintage,
£11.99)Religion Explained by Pascal Boyer (Basic Books, £14.35)
World Religions – The Great Faiths Explored and Explained by John Bowker (DK, £19.99)
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