(January 10, 2015 at 8:16 am)Exian Wrote: I agree with you to an extent. Labels are probably cause for more bad than good. But I'm gonna want to know if a dude is a pedophile, sex offender, etc. Generally, you're right, they cause more separation and dehumanization than anything.
I wonder how for into our timeline of self-awareness we came up with religion? I'm assuming it was some loose form of animism. I wonder when religion turned violent and all the gods became gods of war? Since you mentioned the 200,000 year thing...
Um I forgot which ancient Greek said it but "If horses had gods, they would look like horses".
Religion has been around in our species long before the first standardized written language. You can find cave paintings of animals and evidence of rituals. It was a form of worship, basically an very early reflection of evolutionary gap filling in humans.
I can see that pattern seeking in my cat. I cant crawl into his brain, but he sees patterns too. He knows where his food dish is, but can go to the wrong spot if I decide to move the dish to a new location.
Considering how evolution played out, and the fact that religion is still around today, it was inevitable that it would arise, because our species was ignorant back then. Even today it is very easy to pump bad claims into a child and have them hold those claims their entire lives.
