(November 3, 2018 at 8:48 am)AtlasS33 Wrote:(November 3, 2018 at 8:25 am)Brian37 Wrote: It is an absolute myth that only the big three religions of Abraham have concepts of punishment in the afterlife.
Even Japan and China and Tibet have their histories of claiming punishment in the afterlife and underworlds.
Most humans worldwide, in antiquity had bad guesses as to magical punishment/reward motifs.
Humans mistook good and bad being regulated from a divine place, be it a god world or spirit world or reincarnation. It is our species false perception that morality is something super natural.
Probably a clue that all religions in the world did start from the same point, with each culture twisting the original faith according to its own culture. One example is how the "one Christianity" turned into 3, and the "one Islam" turned into 2, and so on.
That's why everybody has news of a hell after death for sinners.
Um no, human writing is only about 10,000 years old. Mythology existed worldwide independently, with no connection to other societies, yet still, humans came up with similar superstitions. The Aboriginals as well as the Chinese as well as Native Americans, all had their independent BAD GUESSES as to patterns in the stars, and gave names to deities and spirits as far as the false perceptions in the shapes they perceived.
Most humans do have some superstition about punishment/reward, yes. But really all that is is our species projecting it's own qualities, desires in super natural form.
Our species evolved to socialize, and form groups. So as a result, anything that hurt the local group, local individual was seen as bad, anything that was seen to benefit the local group/individual was seen as good. The mistake all of antiquity made worldwide, was assigning natural events and our species behaviors to fictional projections of human qualities. The word for that is "anthropomorphism."
