RE: Evolutionary explanation of religion
November 23, 2020 at 8:16 pm
(This post was last modified: November 23, 2020 at 8:17 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Probably not. We were religious and had rituals and ritual beliefs for many (many many many many many) thousands of years before anyone came up with the silly man in the sky shit - which would have seemed even sillier to people with those strong religious beliefs. A bit like they're all convinced to this very day that the rest of them sound silly.
Theism and theistic religion is very uniquely and very distinctly a product of the late neolithic and early bronze related to the organization of nascent societies with needs that exceed (and evade) the tight and tacitly accepted bonds and rules of the extended family unit.
TDR version is that it would have sounded ridiculous that a man ran shit in the sky when men didn't run shit on the ground yet. It's only after that point that we see any indication of such beliefs.
Theism and theistic religion is very uniquely and very distinctly a product of the late neolithic and early bronze related to the organization of nascent societies with needs that exceed (and evade) the tight and tacitly accepted bonds and rules of the extended family unit.
TDR version is that it would have sounded ridiculous that a man ran shit in the sky when men didn't run shit on the ground yet. It's only after that point that we see any indication of such beliefs.
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