RE: When people claim religion is harmless.
January 17, 2018 at 10:58 am
(This post was last modified: January 17, 2018 at 11:02 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 17, 2018 at 9:56 am)alpha male Wrote: Think it through. It's not difficult. Different groups of people competed with each other. From an evolutionary perspective, they didn't begin with religion.As far as we can tell..they did-ish.
Quote:Religion came in at some point.That's not at all our understanding of the likely origin of religion based upon the archaealogical record.
Quote:If religion were deleterious to the survival of the group, it would have been eradicated. But, it fixed in practically all groups. That indicates that it's advantageous.
Nah, it indicates that all of these groups of humans that independently arrived at their various proto-religious beliefs had some common advantageous traits, no telling what those might be.....
The irony of this comment from a christian..whose religion was very recently engaged in -being- the deleterious agent of believers of other religions is delicious, though. Religion isn;t, today..some sort of fixed advantage...nor has it been so in the memorable past. I'm not sure why we're expecting more from it in the bowels of prehistory. The earliest religions compelled people to bury valuable and practically useful goods in the dirt as offerings to a corpse. To say that a few cavekids probably went hungry on account of this is putting it mildly - these were a chronically impoverished and needful people. Religion has been engaged in increasingly parasitic behaviors ever since.
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