2006-12-15 00:44:10 · 17 answers · asked by sue steve 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"...and man created God."
2006-12-15 00:46:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Religion arose when prehistoric man, always on the edge of starvation, hoped for some sort of divine intervention to help get dinner. This was not unreasonable, since there was no understanding of how things really work, and if the possible consequence of not palliating the gods is to starve to death, you are going to try to palliate the gods. Of course, nowadays this is no longer necessary; we know how the world (and most of the universe) works, and religion, except for its utility as a warm fuzzy blanket, is obsolete.
2006-12-15 08:50:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
A human being get enlightenment. People follow him like bees follow flower. He tries hard to show them the way of enlightenment. Few get en lighted. Others form a religion after he leaves the body with a compilation of his teachings. Then few heads of the followers run a crusade of interpreting and marketing that religion and it carries on. In todays world Conversions and killing result of it.
2006-12-15 08:58:20 · answer #3 · answered by dd 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God has nothing to do with religion, religion was created by man. But God is the source of everything.
2006-12-15 08:55:59 · answer #4 · answered by nakupendachu 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You're kidding right? When man first became aware of his surroundings he was not intelligent or educated enough to explain things. Nature phenomena was attributed to gods doing it. As civilization became more advanced some civilizations thought maybe one god could do it all. Now man is intelligent and educated enough to explain their surroundings we don't need the myth if God or gods anymore.
2006-12-15 08:46:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Because people who have no ready answers to a lot of things around them sought refuge in the unknown, hence god. That the begining of religions.
2006-12-15 08:50:27 · answer #6 · answered by Ebby 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I recommend Feuerbach's Essence of Religion. He gives some very good, very simple explanations as to how religion came about.
2006-12-15 08:48:35 · answer #7 · answered by angk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion was created by man for men.
2006-12-15 08:47:40 · answer #8 · answered by Yngona D 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The FSM was created by a man, but that doesn't stop me from following it blindly.
I put all my trust and Faith in the FSM, and there is the true works, and book, and I believe it with all my heart, so it MUST be true.
right?
2006-12-15 08:51:07 · answer #9 · answered by apple 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion is an institution-institutions are only created by humanity.
2006-12-15 08:48:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ancient people made the best explanations they could for the phenomena they saw, then handed those explanations down to their decendents.
2006-12-15 08:48:30 · answer #11 · answered by Let Me Think 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋