from the article:
The hypothesis still needs to be tested, for example with lab experiments on belief transmission, and historical studies of religions.
But if Henrich is right, churches that liberalise their behavioural codes may be sabotaging themselves by reducing their followers' commitment.
This may explain why strict evangelical Christian churches are expanding in the US at the expense of mainstream denominations.
Lab experiments to test the effects of their domination and abuse? So congregations are no more than lab rats, now?
I have read some scientific documentation that Scientology was born from experiments at Stanford.
I have also read that silent sound at certain mega herz has been used in sound systems in certain churches for hypnotic effect.
I have no doubt that much of religion has been about not only money and power, but mind manipulation on the masses.
As far as the JWs, they try to twist everything into a persecution. (And WT encourages this.)
I think this is why some of them cannot and will not look at the holes in this piece of cheese.
The sense of some perceived persecution appeals to their ego and vanity.
People who define themselves by their self-righteousness are not willing to be wrong---about anything.
