Morals are things that are learned from listening to stories.
Since humans have been telling stories for about as long as language has existed, morals pre-date religion.
We know that the earliest [modern human] languages are Khoisan languages or African click-languages.
As far as I know, the Khoisan people had never developed any organized religions.
I would surmise that organized religion did not arise until sometime after the advent of more sophisticated phoenetic languages.
It would be interesting to study whether the Khoisan people do, in fact, have religious or religious-like beliefs (that were not learned in modern history), and to what extent, if any.
Remember that the ancestors of the Khoisan people, are also the ancestors of all people who have a long ancestry outside of Africa (meaning the vast majority of us).
We also know that neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis), had religious-like behavioural attributes.
Since some neanderthals, are the ancestors of many of us, it is quite possible that we had inherited much of our religious or religious-like tendencies from them.
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Morals didnt exist before religion , no matter what religion it was
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And you know this how?
Is not true.
Morals are things that are learned from listening to stories.
Since humans have been telling stories for about as long as language has existed, morals pre-date religion.
We know that the earliest [modern human] languages are Khoisan languages or African click-languages.
As far as I know, the Khoisan people had never developed any organized religions.
I would surmise that organized religion did not arise until sometime after the advent of more sophisticated phoenetic languages.
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Remember that the ancestors of the Khoisan people, are also the ancestors of all people who have a long ancestry outside of Africa (meaning the vast majority of us).
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We also know that neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis), had religious-like behavioural attributes.
Since some neanderthals, are the ancestors of many of us, it is quite possible that we had inherited much of our religious or religious-like tendencies from them.