RE: Do you think that one day religion will become a thing of the past
December 14, 2015 at 2:27 pm
(This post was last modified: December 14, 2015 at 2:30 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
@Hanky, I've seen the notion bandied around that god stories (or god persistence) may be related to the administration of proto cities.......but never that they would have been impossible or even significantly more difficult. Even this, however, ignores a wide gap between behavioral modernity and city building, we already had gods for quite some time..and yet they didn't help us build cities. Even hunter gatherers built cities, so a confluence of god and grain doesn't strike me as any more convincing.
It's always seemed simpler, to me, to assume that cities had gods because cities had people, and people had gods. Their presence was coincidental and unavoidable. What suggests to us that city building or admin would have been easier with religion and gods thrown in the mix...we can certainly see innumerable examples of precisely the opposite within recorded history?
Toss me some lit man, so I can read up on this agreement of anthropologists.
It's always seemed simpler, to me, to assume that cities had gods because cities had people, and people had gods. Their presence was coincidental and unavoidable. What suggests to us that city building or admin would have been easier with religion and gods thrown in the mix...we can certainly see innumerable examples of precisely the opposite within recorded history?
Toss me some lit man, so I can read up on this agreement of anthropologists.
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