RE: Religion stems from ancient pagan astrology.
July 1, 2016 at 4:58 pm
(This post was last modified: July 1, 2016 at 5:00 pm by Brian37.)
(July 1, 2016 at 4:51 pm)Irrational Wrote:(July 1, 2016 at 4:26 pm)Brian37 Wrote: 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.
That's one thing. It's another to argue that, therefore, that some story was a blatant copy of a prior one. You'd have to provide specific evidence for such. It also doesn't help that numerology happens to be part of the OP video argument. I get peeved when Christians and Muslims do numerology with their books to make certain arguments. Why should I all of a sudden feel differently when atheists do so?
It is a copy. Neither that video or I here now am claiming direct connections in all cases. It is no different than carbonated water being sold as a medicine, then someone else seeing that, adding sugar and food coloring and calling it soda, then someone else seeing that, starting their own soda company and giving it a different name and adding different flavors do that for a hundred years, some of he early competitors don't exist anymore. With religion you are talking even way longer periods of time in terms of thousands of years for connections to be lost.
Christianity is a mix of all sort of things, but the one thing no religion is anywhere in the world is original. You always have prior generations and competing generations and even independent motifs that are similar.
