people who have some knowledge in this subject,can you give me a TL;DR/ELI5 of the origins of religion
Where did religion come from?
Justin Wood
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Ryan Turner
came from my bum
Justin Reed
ITS A MAN MADE COPING MECHANISM, M-MORTY!!!
Grayson Sullivan
it came from the holy land and you you filthy heathen will soon be cleansed from the lords chosen land
Gabriel Phillips
Et kaam fram may ars lel
Thomas Ortiz
from our ancestors minds too simple to understand why day turn to night
Robert Nelson
based,but some people (kinda including myself) think it's too large and complex to be manmade, what do you have to say to that?
Elijah Hall
Inb4 K*rboid
Blake Bell
Noe et es nat dum ars
Andrew Cox
Mickey mouse and santa are more recognizable than Jesus throughout the world, and they are man made.
Aiden Johnson
true, I am not saying religion is flawed, I just wanna know it's origins for the timeline to make sense to me,did some people just get together and wrote the Bible or Quran?
Luis Ward
human desire to create religions and worship something is one of evolutionary human needs. Its hard to say exact purpose of this, but some animals also have proto-religious rituals.
Connor Edwards
something, something, burial rights, something, something, fear of death.
Jackson Evans
i believe it was originally created to give praise to everything in a celebration of life
Caleb Foster
Aaron Bailey
religion also can be an instinctual attempt to rationalize morality, as proto-religious behavior is usually observed in animals that have some sort of primitive understanding of morals(chimpanzees for example)
Julian Perez
The three big Abrahamic religions are very similar in their teachings, despite what some people say
>the origins of religion
This answer depends on your religion, or lack of it
Luke Reyes
from rich people willing to control the poor
Jackson Fisher
I invented it while I was mowing the lawn
Chase Hall
impressive
Jacob Turner
Coping for what though?
You got a source for this? I've never heard of it before.
Ayden Mitchell
Some people wanted to control other people so they invented magical sky daddy, who of course "said that I'm important and you're not and you must serve me -I mean him- or die!".
John Sanders
Coping with the fact we aren't special, that there is no greater good, that there is no reason for existing.
Lucas Gray
No, we're very special. I will continue to believe this until I see a monkey building a skyscraper or a dolphin writing a book
Dylan James
Well, monkeys are capable of waging war, "annexing" territory, having complex relationships and using simple tools. So there's that
Michael Jenkins
The concept of importance is relative.
Brayden Thompson
Are they capable of nuking japan?
Aaron Bell
Maybe in a couple of million years. First humans weren't aware of nuclear fusion too desu
Connor Jones
We will kill them before it happens. We hold their life in our hands. That's why we're special.
Ryder Cox
we are special because we got lucky and randomly went on the fastest evolutionary route to nukes? In that regard yes
Eli Ross
Dead: at first after someone in the cave died no one did s thing with his corpse. It was just lying there rotting, bringing stench and illnesses. So others thought that there must be a substance in the air, something remaining from their relative's body who is very angry on them. Therefore his body must be ridden from, preferably under soil so that he can't get up and come back.
Now, digging a whole in earth sure thing means fertilizing the soil, and because other members of the tribe kept bringing to the dead food and water do his soul won't get mad, sometimes a seed dropped on the fetikized soil, and after a while an apple tree or a bush started to grow, meaning that ancestor's soul is grateful and gives his grattitude. That's where the idea if sacrifice and offerings comes from.