Correcto!
It's not TRUE.
Merely occasionally useful.
Killing can be good, eg, invading armies.
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Why Does Religion Exist
- Thread starter Nakosis
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Merely occasionally useful.
Killing can be good, eg, invading armies.
Non-religious research will offer the best explanation. The history of human and cultural evolution is well documented and how religion emerged is explained here.
en.m.wikipedia.org
History of religion - Wikipedia
No, I wouldn't say so.
... at least, depending on how we define morality. If we accept that morality concers the impact of our actions on the well-being of thinking agents (one definition I've come across), then it's no more unsupported or arbitrary than, say, nutrition.
Even though there can be reasonable disagreement about the ideal healthy diet (or even reasonable rejection of the idea that there is one "ideal healthy diet"), we can clearly identify rocks and poison as unquestionably unhealthy to eat.
Even if lots of kids first learned that murder is bad in Sunday School, I don't think its origins are in mythology.
Although a general rule against killing is I think prudent
Although granted, there are numerous exceptions
But I think that as a rule killing should not be an option
I'm not sure what you mean by true claim. Be that as it may:
- it almost certainly should be rendered "do not murder,"
- the prohibition antedates the Torah.
All five are true in some situations and not in others. It is possible and in fact commonplace for two or more to coexist even within the same person at any given moment, too.
It is not for nothing that I insist that we should put some effort into explaining what we mean by "religion" when we use that word.
For those attracted to it, at best it offers a moral framework and rituals which some find meaningful.
In terms of Islamic sufism, religion is called "shariat", the exoteric. Beyond that is "tariqat", the spiritual path, maarifat, gnosis, and haqiqat, realization.
With all due respect, what you are truly saying here is that you are lacking seriously in scientific education.
I think that is a much better and more nuanced commandment than "do not kill"
BTW, that is why I allowed multiple votes. I actually selected all 5 myself.
As you say, it is a matter of interpretation of what religion is.
I'd suggest the greater number of alternate reasons you can consider as possibilities the greater one's cognitive awareness.
InChrist
Free4ever
I chose other because:
I consider religion to be any concept or practice whereby humans think they can reach God, a higher power, or higher state of being through their own efforts, rituals, etc.
It exists because humans are under the deceptive belief that they are capable of reaching God or improving their spiritual state themselves, rather than relying upon their Creator.
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Tomef
Well-Known Member
It seems natural that some kind of belief system would develop in communities that had little understanding of the natural world. Even now when something weird happens, some people are quick to think there must be supernatural forces involved. Maybe that’s just something that naturally arises, out of the need to assign cause or something like that.
Augustus
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3 and 5.
Humans need to make sense of the world so we construct narratives that create meaning where none (objectively) exists.
Some of these narratives may be “religious” and others “secular” but there is no meaningful way to demarcate religion from “not religious” worldviews. Hopefully, these narratives will convey some things that help us make decisions and lead fulfilling lives though.
Basically religion exists because either a religion or a functionally equivalent “secular” ideology is needed for us to make sense of the world.
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Religion is a set of ways of relating to the persons--human and other-than-human--in our environment.
Tinkerpeach
Active Member
Well something created the elements that created the Big Bang that created the universe that created us.
Sounds like something scientists should be interested in.