Wade,
I hope i will have years ahead for contemplation and hard work to be able to understand your work better. Though even now i'm familiar with all those horrible things you've mentioned, and when i talk about spirituality i have a much bigger picture in mind than it might seem. By the way, i doubt that energy scarcity can be directly linked to some of them, such as burning someone alive or cutting hearts. It seems to be more about religious beliefs prevalent at the time in a particular society since pleasing God or gods in order to have food could have taken different forms, and not necessarily all of them were brutal. When, for example, prophet Muhammad came he made it clear that killing infants was against the Will of Allah whatever scarcity considerations could be there.
I understand that to be able to give all your heart to what you're doing, and what you're doing is very important indeed, you need to have a clear goal and as less variables as possible. But what if everything cannot be simply reduced to the variable you're looking at? I will delve deeper into your research with all openness i'm capable of. From my side, i'd recommend the following reading that would help to include more variables: http://www.roseofworld.org/book_eng.htm
Peace




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Your simple proposal resonates well with me, however difficult could be its realization.