(August 31, 2012 at 10:15 pm)Polaris Wrote: Religion throughout early history was a primary phenomena which culture centered upon....many of the great communities were founded as religious destinations such as the Stonehenge complexes. Most of what we see today in archeology concerns religion, which those cultures had as the focus of their laws and government. Religion was the center of life and the center of the civilizations....even Christian Europe and the Moslems did not even come close to the pervasiveness of religion into their daily lives.Sorry, but this is going nowhere for so long as you avoid answering what difference religion actually makes when compared across societies, or if any religion will work why that is not a by-product of human thinking rather than some truth?
The more primitive and less knowledgeable the society the more they thought fairies would fix stuff. As they organised around tribal leaders and commenced agriculture they had surplus resources to support more thinking so religious thinking was gradually pushed back. Stonehenge was not a community founded as a religious destination, by the way, it was the religious product of a culture existing. Dominant kings imposed laws and used religion for law enforcement, claiming divinity for themselves.
Perhaps you could help by developing for me the social and philosophical ideas we obtained from Greek gods rather than from Greek people, yet the Greeks commenced with religious exploitation to support privilege as well.
