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[quote author=ErisDiscordia link=topic=178336.msg8788071#msg8788071 date=1410513630]
So is [religion] the belief that governments are necessary and in fact desirable for human societies to exist.  And while there is not much historical evidence suggesting a government-less society would or would not function due to absence of data [ ... ]
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It is worse than that: all of history is full of evidence that some government soon arises in any society that tries to be anarchic, or finds itself deprived of its government.  Not uncommonly, that government is totalitarian and autocratic.

Anarchists cannot describe any credible proposal for protecting people from gangs of robbers, without a strong government.  Indeed, even in the oldest Sumerian writings there is mention of such gangs -- and requests for the king to send troops to fight them.  Government was invented, and grew, in good part to do that function.