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Andertoons
By Mark Anderson![Adult Children](https://avatar.amuniversal.com/feature_avatars/ubadge_images/features/ach/small_u-201701251615.png)
Adult Children
By Stephen Beals![The Academia Waltz](https://avatar.amuniversal.com/feature_avatars/ubadge_images/features/aw/small_u-201701251612.png)
The Academia Waltz
By Berkeley Breathed![The Argyle Sweater](https://avatar.amuniversal.com/feature_avatars/ubadge_images/features/tas/small_u-201701251611.png)
The Argyle Sweater
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Reality Check
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Looks Good on Paper
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Real Life Adventures
By Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich![Basic Instructions](https://avatar.amuniversal.com/feature_avatars/ubadge_images/features/basic/small_u-201701251611.png)
Basic Instructions
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Angry Little Girls
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Tim Campbell
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M2Bulls
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Mike Lester
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Phil Hands
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Prickly City
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9 Chickweed Lane
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Tom the Dancing Bug
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Pearls Before Swine
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Non Sequitur
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Moderately Confused
By Jeff Stahler![Kliban](https://avatar.amuniversal.com/feature_avatars/ubadge_images/features/klib/small_u-201701251614.png)
Kliban
By B. Kliban![Get Fuzzy](https://avatar.amuniversal.com/feature_avatars/ubadge_images/features/gz/small_u-201701251613.png)
Get Fuzzy
By Darby Conley![The Fusco Brothers](https://avatar.amuniversal.com/feature_avatars/ubadge_images/features/fu/small_u-201701251612.png)
The Fusco Brothers
By J.C. Duffy![Doonesbury](https://avatar.amuniversal.com/feature_avatars/ubadge_images/features/db/small_u-201701251612.png)
Doonesbury
By Garry Trudeau![Calvin and Hobbes](https://avatar.amuniversal.com/feature_avatars/ubadge_images/features/ch/small_u-201701251613.png)
Calvin and Hobbes
By Bill Watterson![Bloom County 2019](https://avatar.amuniversal.com/feature_avatars/ubadge_images/features/blmc/small_u-201701251615.png)
Bloom County 2019
By Berkeley Breathed![Bloom County](https://avatar.amuniversal.com/feature_avatars/ubadge_images/features/blm/small_u-201701251612.png)
Right you are, martens. I view religion as a part of a larger cultural identity. Sometimes it’s a large part of that identity. Sometimes religion is more important, and sometimes it’s less important among the broader array of other factors that go into a cultural identity.
Cultural identities have evolved to make in-group collaboration a central feature of the hugely successful (to date) human evolutionary process. Demonstrably, collaborative behavior is the central a priori condition precedent to our evolutionary success. Competition between and among cultures fosters collaboration with a culture, but not among cultures where conflict is often more pronounced than collaboration.
[Side note- right now, our collaboration doesn’t extend as far as it must to address truly species-wide concerns such as climate change. That is, our collaboration doesn’t extend as far as it must to address truly species-wide concerns such as climate change. If we cannot create a universal human culture, we are likely to see our species go into an evolutionary decline. That is, we are likely to see a strong contraction in populations.]
The Hamas-Israel problem is just such a conflict. It took a huge amount of collaboration to dig the tunnels in Gaza. It takes a huge amount of collaboration to maintain the Israeli identity. But these cultures have been competing with each other and fighting, not collaborating. And one culture has been dominant for a bunch of reasons. Central among those reasons, in my view, is that collaboration among Jews has, in general, been stronger than collaboration among Palestinians, and that has been a difference maker because collaboration among members of our species has been the one sure way to evolutionary success for the collaborators.
But, make no mistake, religion is a large part of the cultural identities of both the Palestinians and the Israelis. And those cultures are currently in conflict as they compete for territory.