RE: Just a theory
July 9, 2018 at 1:26 am
(This post was last modified: July 9, 2018 at 1:30 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 8, 2018 at 11:56 pm)kbultra Wrote: I know this is very far fetched but hear me out. I was thinking about religion (I am newly atheist) and thought that maybe religion was originally made to keep early humans in order. Before police and jail and law at all. Think about it, if you couldn't keep people under control and there were no laws, what would you do to keep people from killing and stealing? I know what I would do. I would come up with a story in which people who do bad and immoral things get punished after they die, and people who do great and kind things live in a perfect place after they die. Sound familiar? I honestly believe that religion could have originated from an early human form of "law"
I would love to hear your thoughts.
Kindest regards,
Kb
Welcome aboard.
Some parts of every religion are normative in that way, sure. I doubt that;s why (either primarily or in a singular sense) we came up with any of them, though. Ask yourself this, what came first, the prohibition or the proclamation of faith in a divinely inspired variant of the same? By the time you find this stuff in religions it already existed in our culture and we already had plenty of ways to force compliance. They reckon that their god agrees with them, is all (they always do, lol).
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