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A dancer juggles fire as a 52-foot tall wooden man as it goes up in flames September 2, 2000 during the 15th annual Burning Man festival in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada. (David McNew/Newsmakers/Getty Images)

Burning Man highlights the primordial human need for ritual

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Are religious people more moral?

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