Origin of religion

[TheGrid]

Re: Origin of religion

Oh, I touched the boot again.

[MalReynolds]

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Anyways, I think the origin of religion is somehow tied to this magical boot that I've found. I'm not quite sure how it works, but it's a good theory and it leads to some majorly zany adventures.

[slipstrike0159]

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People who follow any particular faith don't really care. It's not important to them. Atheists insist on bringing up this topic time and time again just so they can say "IT WAS CREATED BY MAN JUST TO EXPLAIN THE UNEXPLAINABLE YOU IGNORANT HICKS" and I'll be frank: I'm ****ing tired of it.

Ahaha, i hope you dont think i am one of those atheists calling people ignorant. I was merely trying to point out a way that seems logical to other people. I could say that religion was brought to the earth by god to establish a certain way of life like i am told, but i dont think it would have been receaved well.

[Nikkis]

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Anyways, I think the origin of religion is somehow tied to this magical boot that I've found. I'm not quite sure how it works, but it's a good theory and it leads to some majorly zany adventures.

Share plz.

Your theory is very farfetched and I've never heard of such mushrooms. Perhaps they just got them high and they assumed they saw divine beings. Whatever.

[Leatherhead]

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well, most religions were cults, and some are STILL cults after time's passed.

[Afrobean]

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Laharl, don't be so uptight.

Even if you have absolute faith in your religion, then you must be in the same boat as atheists when it comes to unrelated belief systems. You believe in the God who created Adam and Eve, who is the father of Jesus, etc. right? You don't believe in things such as Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon, right?

Basically, even if your belief system is correct, the origin of religion (ie the initial idea of gods) comes from trying to answer questions which would be difficult to answer. A simple minded individual in ancient times with no concept of science would look at the sun and think "wow look at that fiery chariot driving across the heavens. It moves almost as though there is thought behind it's movements... there must be a sentient being behind this." And after all, there are many independently structured god based belief systems. Laharl, even if your beliefs are true and divinely inspired, what about the belief systems which came before? Or, even more importantly, the beliefs of far off peoples such as Native Americans or South East Asians which involve gods. Are you saying that they're all divinely inspired as well?

[dragonschild]

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Share plz.

Your theory is very farfetched and I've never heard of such mushrooms. Perhaps they just got them high and they assumed they saw divine beings. Whatever.

thats exactly what the theory states. If you have tripped on mushrooms you might have a better understanding why these uneducated, less conscious humans might have percieved these beings as divine.

[MalReynolds]

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Chemcially unbalanced, uneducated and hallucinating does not a God make.

[GuidoHunter]

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Well first of all, you dont have to act like a prick. And to answer your question, I meant to put up there what people's thoughts on the theory were

This isn't a forum for surveys; it's a forum for thinking. It's ESPECIALLY not a forum for flaming, either, so watch your tongue here.

Nevertheless, if it's turned in the right direction, this thread has some hope.

Any more sidetracking onto the wrong aspects of religion (Laharl, Afro, dragons, I'm looking at y'all), though, and it's going to be locked. Keep it topical.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[dragonschild]

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Chemcially unbalanced, uneducated and hallucinating does not a God make.

Well its very well possible a god makes these, although I do not believe that. Where did this god come from, how would he have come into "being"?

Is not nature equally wondrous by imagining that it has all come into being on it's own? I guess there is no way of proving the existence of "god" or a higher being, and this may possibly never be proven. But if it could be proven, then maybe we might know how religion came to be.

And about what you said about this is not for surveys guido, i saw a survey about the bible...... thought it would be ok if I did to, doesen't really seem to harm anyone, but if not then sorry, im new.

[slipstrike0159]

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You realize there are headbangers that get together and listen to some pretty messed up music. They claim that after slamming their brains into the backs of their heads that they have vision, if anything its nothing more than a trick of the mind. I just dont think that i want to believe that the whole foundation for religion came from some guys way back when who got high.

[dragonschild]

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You realize there are headbangers that get together and listen to some pretty messed up music. They claim that after slamming their brains into the backs of their heads that they have vision, if anything its nothing more than a trick of the mind. I just dont think that i want to believe that the whole foundation for religion came from some guys way back when who got high.

I dont blame you, and i respect your belief. Tripping would be the proper word, although its not relevant. The things you see while under the influence of psilocybin are so vivid and crazy, you have to at least acknowledge how this scenario could have came about. I mean hell, spores could have drifted through space and landed here, and what these people were seeing while on these mushrooms could very well be gods, maybe the gods who made the mushrooms, and even the earth and ourselves.... although it seems farfetched.

[MalReynolds]

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Well, right. It's perfectly feasible that at some point in time before 'civilized' culture, people ate mushrooms and thought they saw God. But that's kind of a silly reason to make a thread, and I highly doubt that that's the reason behind the creation of organized religion.

[dragonschild]

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Well, right. It's perfectly feasible that at some point in time before 'civilized' culture, people ate mushrooms and thought they saw God. But that's kind of a silly reason to make a thread, and I highly doubt that that's the reason behind the creation of organized religion.

Do you think the existance of god is a more feasible explanation?

[jewpinthethird]

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Do you think the existance of god is a more feasible explanation?

There are a lot more feasible explanations aside from that of hallucinogens. How can you explain the creation of the Eastern religions such as Buddhism, or Islam, where intoxicants are forbidden?