@NecromanticSin,
NecromanticSin;118065 wrote:New question(s),I thought religion would be a good place for me to start,so i'm looking for insight on others thoughts about it,in general. Not any one religion,but organized religion itself.
Without religion, do you think people would have just had ''something else'',or would people have learned to live without the organized religions? Yes, it has influenced many things, but without those events, could ''something else'' have taken it's place, or would most of the history itself be completely different to today. Was religion going to happen either way, or was this something that could have been avoided altogether with better ideas,and concepts of the world,and stand moral rights and wrongs? How much does religion really influence our past,our present and our future?
At my current momment,i feel religion is just like a cult. Someone comes along, feeds into the minds of the weak needing answers, and from there become something beyond themselves,but a supreme being that they look up to,and listen to,and never dare change their mind aganist,for the wrath will be upon them. Jim jones killed over 900 people, beacuse some people just wanted to learn the ''utopia''. If everyone started to banned religion all together, do you think the ones involved would go on a mass killing spree to stop anyone from unbelieving? Or do I just think silly things?
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I don't think that religion was avoidable. People evolved from more primitive primates, and had to figure things out for themselves; there was no one to teach them anything they could not figure out for themselves. So, since people don't like not having answers to their questions, they made up answers as best they could. Every primitive culture has religion or superstition or whatever you want to call it. Today's religions are the result of primitive superstitions, and many even brag about this, as if being the older religion, being from a less advanced era, somehow makes the religion better. Religion is essentially primitive thinking, though it can take on quite complex forms.
You might enjoy David Hume's
Natural History of Religion:
Online Library of Liberty - The Natural History of Religion
Someone else might be able to suggest a more modern study of the subject, but Hume is always worth reading.
As for banning religion, I think that is a very bad idea. First, such a ban could never work, as people would privately believe all sorts of nonsense anyway, and second, I don't think trying to ban diverse beliefs is moral. I think that people should believe in proportion to the evidence they have for the particular belief. For more on that idea, see:
burger-book
(It would be best to read all of it, but I particularly recommend the first essay by Clifford. If you read the second essay, be sure to read the third one as well.)
People are often wrong, but making a law that they must always be right is not going to make them right.
As for the future, the world is becoming more secular, though I doubt if it will ever be the case that there is no religion, until, that is, humans go extinct.
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