Reply #12: But it's not a farce.

[aquart]

We know that religion was in the caves and in our first burials. Religion began when we began. It isn't a farce. It's the history of our attempts to understand a world that didn't cater to us and sometimes brought us great sorrow and sometimes great joy. And religion became the cement of community with which we managed to endure it all by enduring it together.

I have a glossary of indo-european word roots. The words for witch and wand and economics have the same root, because all of it had to do with us trying to make our best deal with life.

"Farce" dismisses that struggle. Which had so many triumphs as we made our way through the millenniums.

But maybe that's too much for 8.