religious mates
some research was published recently. an extreme interpretation of the results is that religion is a mating strategy. rational measured interpretations are boring and don't steer eyeballs to your site like the sensational stuff. so onward we plow. the thinking goes like this. you're a male with a mate. a higher ranking male shows up and starts putting the moves on your female. you can't kick his ass cause if you could he wouldn't be higher rank than you. but you can't let him knock up your mate. so what do you do? play the god card. adultery is a sin. punishable by stoning. to death. you are effectively saying to your mate, if you fuck him i'll kill you. the male gets the message, too. you can't kill him. but you can kill his unborn children.