That's the sad thing. Most people don't know it's fake. By now a lot of religions have stopped being used, but there are still many left. I've always figured that because of the sheer outrageous nature of a lot of religions they may have originally been stories that were not meant to be taken seriously. Like you said with the plays of Shakespeare. But some people (most likely insane) began to take it more seriously. Remember this was a very primitive time.
Plus, think about how ancient rulers felt back then. They didn't have security cameras or fingerprint marking. It was difficult catching criminals, especially thieves. In the Bible it mentions how much of it was written by kings by each littler story within it. Perhaps the kings of that age made various religions to help them control crime and disobedience, with threats of going to hell if they did crime or didn't do what the king said. Then religion spread and evolved into all sorts of various forms (there are multiple types of Christianity, for example) and all sorts of different people adapted to it. The original purpose of religion may have just been stories, rantings of crazy people, or ancient kings trying to control the population better. Probably a combination of those things.
Sadly we'll never know for sure what happened and how this mess all got started.
You dont understand, how could religion get huge if people knew it was fake in the past?
Thats like people believing in spongebob. Do you know of ANY people who actually think spongebob is real?
So either most people back in history were completely idiots, which is underestimating the Romans, ect.
Or God does exist.
I dont know about the king thing though, I would have to look that up myself.
Religion goes back A LONG way. So pretty much everyone up until 2010 were insane people?
Because athiesm as you should know, hadnt gained popularity in big numbers until recently.
Like 20 years ago, religion was still on top.
So everyone was insane until like 6 years ago? lol is that what your saying?
I'm not saying everyone was insane until recently, but those who originally came up with religion probably were. And although people back then weren't stupid, they were also uneducated and uninformed. So the idea of religion didn't seen crazy to them. Nowadays we are starting to get past all that, but of course there will always be people who hold onto the ideas of the past.
why do you think humans originally "invented" religion though?
what kind of original human would have that kind of imagination? Wouldnt it make sense if a whole group of people came up with it instead of one person?
IIN to think that without religion the world would collapse?
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The original conscience may have came from religion, and religion came from humans. We could've just skipped a step.
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Shakesphere wrote plays but yet nobody takes those seriously, why do people take religion seriously if they know it's fake?
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That's the sad thing. Most people don't know it's fake. By now a lot of religions have stopped being used, but there are still many left. I've always figured that because of the sheer outrageous nature of a lot of religions they may have originally been stories that were not meant to be taken seriously. Like you said with the plays of Shakespeare. But some people (most likely insane) began to take it more seriously. Remember this was a very primitive time.
Plus, think about how ancient rulers felt back then. They didn't have security cameras or fingerprint marking. It was difficult catching criminals, especially thieves. In the Bible it mentions how much of it was written by kings by each littler story within it. Perhaps the kings of that age made various religions to help them control crime and disobedience, with threats of going to hell if they did crime or didn't do what the king said. Then religion spread and evolved into all sorts of various forms (there are multiple types of Christianity, for example) and all sorts of different people adapted to it. The original purpose of religion may have just been stories, rantings of crazy people, or ancient kings trying to control the population better. Probably a combination of those things.
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You dont understand, how could religion get huge if people knew it was fake in the past?
Thats like people believing in spongebob. Do you know of ANY people who actually think spongebob is real?
So either most people back in history were completely idiots, which is underestimating the Romans, ect.
Or God does exist.
I dont know about the king thing though, I would have to look that up myself.
Religion goes back A LONG way. So pretty much everyone up until 2010 were insane people?
Because athiesm as you should know, hadnt gained popularity in big numbers until recently.
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So everyone was insane until like 6 years ago? lol is that what your saying?
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I'm not saying everyone was insane until recently, but those who originally came up with religion probably were. And although people back then weren't stupid, they were also uneducated and uninformed. So the idea of religion didn't seen crazy to them. Nowadays we are starting to get past all that, but of course there will always be people who hold onto the ideas of the past.
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But once again, why would people follow it then, if everyone KNEW it was fake?
That doesnt make sense.
Yes, but I know people werent stupid enough back then to also believe in ANYTHING
Believe me, people knew it was fake. Thats just common sense. No one in their right mind is gonna believe in something fake, KNOWING IT JUST CAME OUT
The obvious answer is that religion became popular because it WAS real.
why do you think humans originally "invented" religion though?
what kind of original human would have that kind of imagination? Wouldnt it make sense if a whole group of people came up with it instead of one person?
and if a group did, why would they?