2006-07-08 08:06:38 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
yes and no?
2006-07-08 08:09:05 · answer #1 · answered by Justinfire 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A one word answer to your question would be No. I personally don't believe that religion was thought up to fill a void.
Religion came about as a way of cheating death. Since all living things must do everything possible to stay alive, else the specie come to an end. Humans, having the ability to reason, came up with various means of escaping permanent death.
The idea of an invisible soul satisfied many. To some, this soul would leave the dead body and occupy the body of something just being born. So life is lived over and over again.
To others, this invisible soul leaves the body and ends up in a beautiful everlasting surrounding.
It all boils down to the fact that people just can't bring themselves to the idea that it's all going to end.
2006-07-08 15:23:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps. Humans are so greatly more intelligent than all the other organism on this planet. We wonder what will happen after we die. We wonder how we were created. Other beings do not. We use religion as a way of answering these questions to, yes, fill an emotional void.
2006-07-08 15:11:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that religion was created at first as a method for early peoples to explain and understand natural phenomena, that’s why at first there were gods of the rain, thunder, sun, etc.
-Why does it rain?
-Because we’ve been good and the god of the rain is rewarding us.
And that’s basically what they are used for today, explain the unknown. Explain that which science has failed to give a satisfactory answer to, such as an afterlife and what is moral and not.
I am an atheist and I don’t feel any emotional void. Au contraire, I feel that I am that much freer from those who live a life of servitude for someone or something higher than them.
2006-07-08 15:09:15 · answer #4 · answered by llmk08 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion, like all human creations grows from what we are as humans. Is is not as though it was "created" but more that it simply grew out of our need to understand and explain the universe and our role in it.
2006-07-08 15:09:47 · answer #5 · answered by being_of_now 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and to explain various naturaln phenomena like rainbows and comets.
2006-07-08 15:16:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes yes yes and yes!!!
2006-07-08 15:10:07 · answer #7 · answered by marikuska 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋