Journalist and Author Richard Wright explains his analysis of the "evolution of God", for which he uses game theory. According to Wright, a religion that sees itself in a zero-sum relationship with outsiders will prove exclusionist and violent, while a religion that sees itself in a non-zero-sum relationship will adjust its theology accordingly.
Robert Wright is a journalist, scholar, and prize-winning author of best-selling books about science, evolutionary psychology, history, religion, and game theory. His books include *The Evolution of God*; *Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny*; and *The Moral Animal*. He is a visiting scholar at The University of Pennsylvania and Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation. Wright is editor in chief of Bloggingheads.tv, a contributing editor for *The New Republic*, and a contributor to *Time* and *Slate*. He has also written for *The Atlantic Monthly*, *The New Yorker*, *The New York Times Magazine*, *Foreign Policy*, and the op-ed pages of *The New York Times*, among other publications.