RE: Which was first: Atheism or Religion?
June 27, 2014 at 10:53 am
(This post was last modified: June 27, 2014 at 10:59 am by Mister Agenda.)
(June 27, 2014 at 2:34 am)Knowledge of God Wrote:(June 27, 2014 at 2:20 am)ShaMan Wrote:But... If religion was first, then atheism was created by religion.
When did atheism originate?
Was evolution involvolved or was it created?
They say: your future all depends on your roots.
How could anyone actually know the answer to that? Maybe we were already religious by the time we were human. Animals can demonstrate superstitious behavior, so there's no good reason to think that wasn't the case. Maybe we couldn't truly have supernatural beliefs until we had a sophisticated language, and some person somewhere was the first to conceptualize some sort of spirit to be placated. It was at least tens of thousands of years ago. There is currently no way to know for sure. My personal opinion is that belief in animistic spirits was the norm as far back as is reasonable to say we were humans. We evolved to find food and avoid lions, not to skeptically evaluate claims. So what?
(June 27, 2014 at 9:50 am)pocaracas Wrote:(June 27, 2014 at 9:47 am)fr0d0 Wrote: Something
Bah!!
Can you go into more detail?
Experience suggests no.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
