Hi,
This is my first post here. I recently read the first chapter of Michel Onfray's Atheist Manifesto. It gives a perspective on the desert life and the birth of monotheism.
After thinking for a long time, here are my thoughts:
Monotheist religion all originated in the areas of middle east which is apparently deserts. Those people at that time where undergoing hardship, the climate too hot, difficult to find food, water. Psychologically after a limit, people starts to believe and convince themselves that there is a better place out some where and dreams of such place to make them take away their consciousness from difficult situations. This can lead into the creation of a place where you get all you want to get, call it heaven. They know that its almost hard to get out of that desert considering the poor transport and other conditions. So the way to get to that dream land is after death. But if such a thought is planted into human mind, then if the mind is weak, people can kill themselves to get over with. But if more and more people start doing then its a threat to their own existence. So to prevent that they came up with the criterion that will decide whether a human will go to heaven or hell after their death and suicides are straight tickets to hell; to maintain the balance of nature.
Also you must consider that these people were of top caliber. They were the top notch scientists (hard to call them a scientist, but anyway just to emphasize the point). History tells us about Algebra, Yunani etc. So they have good knowledge on various aspects that they put down into that book in a cryptic manner. And kept those knowledge a secret from the general public; to tell them that those where sacred knowledge that they received from "God".
But the interesting point I wanted to make is if you have gone through the scriptures like Bible, Quran, its states that hell is fire. Everything in hell is hot. Its completely fire, deadly. But why is that its only fire? Of course fire i.e, heat depicts the extremities of desert. And there are various sizes and methodologies in which a person who is a sinner will get punished. But why is there no ice? Or cold treatment? Punishments can be made using extreme coldness as well.
In Quran, its told that skin will be removed, tortured. Then his skin will be restored, again this process continues. But why isn't there any mentioning of freezing a person, breaking his some freaking body part, then giving his body part back fresh, then freezing him again.. (And I smell sadistic, abnormal behavior, and thinking that the person had in him when writing those 'religious' books)?
So it must be evident that these religious books and the religion are all the work done by humans alone to keep them withstand their hardship.
So what do you think?
Thanks.
This is my first post here. I recently read the first chapter of Michel Onfray's Atheist Manifesto. It gives a perspective on the desert life and the birth of monotheism.
After thinking for a long time, here are my thoughts:
Monotheist religion all originated in the areas of middle east which is apparently deserts. Those people at that time where undergoing hardship, the climate too hot, difficult to find food, water. Psychologically after a limit, people starts to believe and convince themselves that there is a better place out some where and dreams of such place to make them take away their consciousness from difficult situations. This can lead into the creation of a place where you get all you want to get, call it heaven. They know that its almost hard to get out of that desert considering the poor transport and other conditions. So the way to get to that dream land is after death. But if such a thought is planted into human mind, then if the mind is weak, people can kill themselves to get over with. But if more and more people start doing then its a threat to their own existence. So to prevent that they came up with the criterion that will decide whether a human will go to heaven or hell after their death and suicides are straight tickets to hell; to maintain the balance of nature.
Also you must consider that these people were of top caliber. They were the top notch scientists (hard to call them a scientist, but anyway just to emphasize the point). History tells us about Algebra, Yunani etc. So they have good knowledge on various aspects that they put down into that book in a cryptic manner. And kept those knowledge a secret from the general public; to tell them that those where sacred knowledge that they received from "God".
But the interesting point I wanted to make is if you have gone through the scriptures like Bible, Quran, its states that hell is fire. Everything in hell is hot. Its completely fire, deadly. But why is that its only fire? Of course fire i.e, heat depicts the extremities of desert. And there are various sizes and methodologies in which a person who is a sinner will get punished. But why is there no ice? Or cold treatment? Punishments can be made using extreme coldness as well.
In Quran, its told that skin will be removed, tortured. Then his skin will be restored, again this process continues. But why isn't there any mentioning of freezing a person, breaking his some freaking body part, then giving his body part back fresh, then freezing him again.. (And I smell sadistic, abnormal behavior, and thinking that the person had in him when writing those 'religious' books)?
So it must be evident that these religious books and the religion are all the work done by humans alone to keep them withstand their hardship.
So what do you think?
Thanks.
