(July 8, 2018 at 11:56 pm)kbultra Wrote: I know this is very far fetched but hear me out. I was thinking about religion (I am newly atheist) and thought that maybe religion was originally made to keep early humans in order. Before police and jail and law at all. Think about it, if you couldn't keep people under control and there were no laws, what would you do to keep people from killing and stealing? I know what I would do. I would come up with a story in which people who do bad and immoral things get punished after they die, and people who do great and kind things live in a perfect place after they die. Sound familiar? I honestly believe that religion could have originated from an early human form of "law"
I would love to hear your thoughts.
Kindest regards,
Kb
Guess you missed the huge mistake you made in your post, I'll point it out.
The bold by me is your grand mistake. You have assumed up till the time someone invented religion and/or law that people were able to define bad and immoral, impossible they had no standard to go by. What makes you think that others would by your story, just look in the mirror and you will see one who hasn't even though religion and law have been around for thousands of years. It would do for you to think things through before writing about them.By the way welcome to the forum.
GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
