RE: Hindu hell
January 24, 2019 at 4:10 pm
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2019 at 4:13 pm by WinterHold.)
(January 24, 2019 at 2:18 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(November 3, 2018 at 8:48 am)AtlasS33 Wrote: 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.
I wouldn't say the "same point" but more like the same era within several hundred years. But concepts of super natural afterlife reward punishment existed even in the oral tradition prior to the written era.
Oral or written it still amounts to humans looking at prior and surrounding claims and creating new stories to compete.
But even without direct or indirect contact, humans completely independent of each other came up with the same bad guesses in antiquity. Fear of celestial bodies like comets, and seeing patterns in the stars were made in antiquity in places like Australia and South America and Africa and China.
Even building upwards to the sky was an idea of worship, that you can find worldwide.
The new Cosmos Series that came out a few years ago hosted by Neil Degrasse Tyson, brought this up in almost every one of the 13 episodes.
The reason motifs of god/s/dieties/ even just spirit worship of your ancestors all started worldwide in an age of ignorance. All those claims are merely a reflection of human qualities, desires, fears and narcissism.
The sentence I used: "same point" refers to the "same time in history"/"same era" too.
The common thing between all nations and races is that all of them can see the sky and the stars. But why did all of them had claims of a "God existing in the sky"?
Why not an army of monsters, if fear alone was the motive of the claim?
Why not sky beasts wanting to come kill all?
You see where I'm going: the sky is so big, even without telescopes. Why would a primitive, ancient human assume a God in the sky and not assume another kind of life? another kind similar to what they see on earth.
Not divine, not superior.
There is no smoke without fire.
The philosophy of religion -the concept of a God/s controlling earth and residing in the sky- is in itself a block that raises the question: why this scenario specifically? there are other scenarios as many as the stars themselves.