(August 23, 2015 at 4:25 am)pocaracas Wrote: I have a book called Anthropology of Religions, it's in Portuguese, by a Portuguese university professor and it seem fairly thorough...sadly,I haven't read the whole thing yet... It's not as easy to carry around like an epub.
This book should cover the appearance and establishment of individual religions in different parts of the world.
But my question to Randy goes beyond that. I'm trying to probe a believer in one particular religion on how come the deity of that religion allowed, or even supported, the sustained belief in other religions and deities. How does he explain that people were believing in other gods before his preferred one ever popped its head to say hi to humanity?
How did mankind come up with them?
Yeah he doesn't realize it but of course he doesn't have a leg to stand on. But I can't imagine he isn't well practiced dealing with cognitive dissonance. No conflict will ever lead him to rethink his favorite hypothesis. Well, maybe you'll provoke him to improve his theology at least but I doubt it.