“People who believe in belief, he says, believe that civilization needs myths to live by, so we mustn’t examine religious ones too closely. Belief in belief is the compromise formation of those who can’t bring themselves to evince a naive belief in a supernatural being but think religion is a useful construct that ought not to be toppled. You’d have a hard time convincing a true believer that anything as second-order and instrumental as ‘belief in belief’ constitutes belief…” Slate writer Judith Shulevitz finds the holes in the evolutionary explanation of religion.