king_hellfire
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if anyone’s interested.
if anyone’s interested.
As you probably know, this was a winter festival long before the Christians hijacked it.The perfect Christmas gift.
Not sure if that is for king_hellfire or me.....what's it about?
It's about a big cult and child abuse.what's it about?
It's a book that tries to explain through the laws of nature that there is no need for religion nor a moral argument for it.
Dawkins does struggle to explain why the human race evolved to create a god. Our evolutionary drive is to survive and he struggles to explain why we as a species created religion.
As you probably know, it's a pagan festival, hijacked to trick people into celebrating the rebirth of NimrodAs you probably know, this was a winter festival long before the Christians hijacked it.
That's because we used to live in tribes.It's a book that tries to explain through the laws of nature that there is no need for religion nor a moral argument for it.
Dawkins does struggle to explain why the human race evolved to create a god. Our evolutionary drive is to survive and he struggles to explain why we as a species created religion.
It kinda is. There is a single chapter devoted entirely to religion, but it also has a chapter called the junkyard jumbo jet, or something like that. He argues that people believe in intelligent design because if a whirlwind blows through a junk yard, it aint going to build a jumbo jet out of the parts. Therefore there has to be a creator.Not really. There’s a whole chapter dedicated to it.
Not really. I recall that dawkins argues much what you have said above, minus the control and taxes. Even he doesn't believe that argument. The tax part of your argument has nothing to do with evolution but with power and control.That's because we used to live in tribes.
Probably explains why stag do and hen party's are so popular.
Thing is only the strongest 15 % of males mated with all of the females, according to dna evidence pre roman times.
Thing is tribes we're difficult to control.
Introducing civilisation and the idea of every man marrying one wife controlled by religion was desirable. Pay your tax on Sunday at church. Non attendance not allowed.
Does that help ?
This is true, but religion has existed since man was able to wonder at the heavens. religion pre-dates romans by tens of thousands of years. Stonehenge?Well the roman empire definitely controlled people using religion. Previously the Egyptians had successfuly built the pyramids using the horus deity, fathered by god, mother the virgin Isis.
In fact the bible stories are mostly copied from the Egyptian book of the dead from 10000 years earlier.
There is strong archeological evidence that stonehenge was a burial and religious site. Whilst we don't know there is strong evidence that religion of one sort or another has been practiced for about 200 thousand years. Essentially we came along and invented religion pretty quickly.Stonehenge was tribal. People hoping that the sun would come up next day.
Hoping the dead ancestors would have a good journey to the afterlife.
Gods probably existed round every corner.
Nobody was selling life after death at that time tho.
I prefer the bicameral mind theory of Julian Jaynes;There is strong archeological evidence that stonehenge was a burial and religious site. Whilst we don't know there is strong evidence that religion of one sort or another has been practiced for about 200 thousand years. Essentially we came along and invented religion pretty quickly.