Title: Conquest of predators = "death of god"?
Product review: Ehrenreich begins with an reasonable assumption and a fact: She reasonably assumes that for tens of millennia our ancestors were cat food (while also occasionally serving as food for other predators like wolves, bears, crocs, etc.); and she points out that adherents to all the ancient religions we know of (including Judaism) offered bloody sacrifices to their "gods" as if they were appeasing man-eating predators with substitute victims.She then goes on to explore the career of the "passions of war" from this foundation. But I think she really should have developed further the implications of these ideas for the "passions of religion." If, as she implies, belief in "gods" derives from fear of predators, then the general conquest of predators the world over should inaugurate an era of freedom from fear of the gods. Does this indicate that "a-theism" in reality means "the absence of predators"?
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