(February 9, 2012 at 2:29 am)Abracadabra Wrote:
I personally think ideas like this are way over-thought.
Here's a far more likely explanation for how mankind created God,...
Once mankind learned to speak Parents would start telling their children stories. They would tell these young impressionable naive children scary stories to keep them in line.
Stories like "And then God torn the arms off the snake and cursed it to crawl on its belly and eat dirt for the rest of its days! All because the snake did something that God didn't like. And you don't want to end up like a snake do you?"
She children would be frightened into becoming well-behaved kids.
Soon it became apparent to some of the more controlling social leaders that even adults were gullible enough to believe the stories, and thus religion was born as a means off frightening gullible people into doing whatever "God Says" even if it meant supporting male-chauvinism, etc.
And the gullibility never ceased to this very day. Now eat your cookies and drink your milk and don't forget to say your prayers before you go to sleep.
The indoctrination of religion is applicable to explain how the current generation are still religious. However, how religion and the concept of god began initially can be explained in a simple sentence: "Human need to fill in an explanation for the unexplained".
