US ambassador killed over a film

[Occhidiangela]

This is the Texas Sharpshooter fallacy. We've labelled a whole series of disparate beliefs "spirituality," but they do not share any objective qualities. There is no inherent reason Buddha and Thor and Reiki and the Tao are part of the same phenomenon, except that we have post-hoc labelled them as such. Our modern category encompasses the set because we have built the category to do exactly that - it needs no further explanation.

Not quite. The "god gene" and the issue of "memes" are both topics of somewhat deeper examination than your discarding this as a simple fallacy.

I forget if it was Harris or Dawkins who arrived at the conclusion that over time, humans seem to have become hardwired toward that predilection. An interesting manifestation of evolution, no matter how you slice it, no matter your own biases.