RE: Do you think that one day religion will become a thing of the past
December 15, 2015 at 11:11 am
(This post was last modified: December 15, 2015 at 11:17 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Found a better way to express myself after a good nights sleep.
If belief in spirits, afterlives, supernatural forces and powers, gods...behavioral modernity, predates the neolithic revolution by 40k years, and it does, then we had been carrying gods around with us all that time...and yet not done the farming or city building thing. It doesn't seem to have helped, or helped to facilitate, and the emergence of agricultural society cannot have been a causitive agent for a pattern of behavior that predates it by 40k years. If it were facilitation, either of city building societies..or of agricultural city building societies specifically..again, it does not seem to have helped - as those cities and their ag were not well managed, not well facilitated..and they could not have been. Thus leading to a stranger question of why it would persist if it was not successful. There's certainly no general rule of benefit that can be inferred with regards to gods and religions and cities - and we needn't wonder on that count, as we can see how divisive religion can be and often is, how much of an additional burden it can place upon administration of anything.
What explanation is it, then, to propose that gods are somehow explained in part by ag or ag cities....or that ag or ag cities are somehow also then, explained in part by god beliefs? I'm trying to understand where this position is coming from.
If belief in spirits, afterlives, supernatural forces and powers, gods...behavioral modernity, predates the neolithic revolution by 40k years, and it does, then we had been carrying gods around with us all that time...and yet not done the farming or city building thing. It doesn't seem to have helped, or helped to facilitate, and the emergence of agricultural society cannot have been a causitive agent for a pattern of behavior that predates it by 40k years. If it were facilitation, either of city building societies..or of agricultural city building societies specifically..again, it does not seem to have helped - as those cities and their ag were not well managed, not well facilitated..and they could not have been. Thus leading to a stranger question of why it would persist if it was not successful. There's certainly no general rule of benefit that can be inferred with regards to gods and religions and cities - and we needn't wonder on that count, as we can see how divisive religion can be and often is, how much of an additional burden it can place upon administration of anything.
What explanation is it, then, to propose that gods are somehow explained in part by ag or ag cities....or that ag or ag cities are somehow also then, explained in part by god beliefs? I'm trying to understand where this position is coming from.
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