(April 20, 2017 at 12:43 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote: The societies weren't atheistic at first and then got drenched into believe suddenly; most of these societies were theist, and remained theist after certain events that manipulated its culture and history; resulting in a strong shift into religious extremism and harsh explanations to get over the "hunger" of the day.
Atheism stayed but changed in places like North Korea and China, but the people were drifted into another form of theism -If you want to call Kim and Mao God-.
I wouldn't turn it into a case of theism and atheism; but I would point to the levels of change desperation can force humans into. Desperation can make people believe the unbelievable.
All dictators know it: hunger makes wonders. It even make us hallucinate.
NO, not exactly.
Our species had it's oral tradition of religion prior to the first written religions, but even up to today, the majority of our species 7 billion belong to some sort of religion. There is religion in every nation bar none. There are simply more open societies and more closed societies. The more oppressive states like North Korea, or the theocracy of Saudi Arabia or even Stalin's Russia don't ban all religions and will take support form those who blindly obey.
It would be nice in reality if it were not theist vs theist vs atheist, but even theists don't get along even under the same umbrella labels. Religion by worldwide does matter because friend and foe alike have armies and weapons, and because of the potential for war and or worse, a nuclear war, it certainly is my business what people claim because people who act on those claims can and do have power.
