RE: Religion stems from ancient pagan astrology.
July 1, 2016 at 4:26 pm
(This post was last modified: July 1, 2016 at 4:31 pm by Brian37.)
(July 1, 2016 at 4:11 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:No that is precisely the point. Europe and Mesopotamia are in very close proximity to Egypt and this proves that that traveling and "Cross pollination" are how all religions start.
One quibble, Brian. It is how they evolve. A bunch of Midianite tribesmen worshiping the volcano god, yah, in the Sinai could easily create a site-specific religion which would meet their needs. But then, other ideas creep in and you end up with the fucking bible.
Ok, "evolve", but the video is pointing to our species early pattern seeking and that is where they all really stem from, worship of nature and animals and seasons changing.
If you do enough study of worldwide religions in our species history you can see even without direct connections the same false perceptions being created simply with different details. Even independently things like worship of constellations and fear of comets.
The 13 part COSMOS series hosted by Neil makes those parallels as well.
When you think globally in human history it is a simple conclusion you can come up with that humans simply were reflecting their own desires and qualities and fears on the world around them.
