If monkeys descended from the same common ancestor as humans, why don't they have religion?

Question

Or do they?

Answer 1

Maybe they've actually evolved beyond humans on that point.

Answer 2

Mankind's journey is to shed animal behaviors and reach for divinity.
Divinity being loving God above all and loving each other as we want to be loved.

One of the most distinct separations is the handling of the dead. In all religions, cultures, and families the burial of the dead is sacred. In Monkey's they do show a grieving period (moment in time of silence), but they do not burry their dead. The Discovery Channel indicated that paleontologists believe this (burry of dead) is the evolutionary juncture where primitive man became "Adam" --- or the first human created in the image of God. However, Christianities true centrality is the mystery of Marriage & Creation --- so I don’t think paleontologists quite have it.

Since mankind has evolved passed the leaving the body for scavengers, mankind has diligently worked toward shedding other animal behaviors: killing, steeling, and being monogamist vs. promiscuous). The more mankind sheds the more divine he is. However, mankind’s biggest struggle has always been balancing the powers of knowledge and wisdom.

Answer 3

Why do we have religion? What purpose would it serve monkeys to have religion? They are a lesser species and therefore do not require beliefes to understand the nature of things, they lack science so they lack religion. Its a toss up but if the earth got hit by an asteroid they would certainly die off while we would have a chance, due to science of course.

Answer 4

Let's see...God made monkeys. God made humans. God made monkeys as animals from the beginning. God made humans in His own image. Humans have an eternal soul. Monkeys do not. Humans were made to worship God. Monkeys were made for humans to have dominion over. Why would monkeys require a religion, since when they die, they're just....dead. Humans have religion to reach the final destination for their spirit, which monkeys do not have.

Answer 5

likely our user-friendly ancestor replaced into one in each and every of those lemur. you may could seem up the ancestry of a lemur to bypass back extra, besides the certainty that from a human attitude it could have been earlier. human beings have semi-webbed arms and feet, something which apes and lemurs do no longer. So it rather is feasible that our strains diverged far earlier from a sea creature.

Answer 6

A monkey will not understand how human reason out things. I am not surprise you ask that question.

Answer 7

Christians?

Answer 8

How can we know?

Maybe they have as many religions as humans do, maybe more, maybe less,maybe they all re agnostic or atheist.

Or maybe the are gods and we should all be worshiping monkeys!

Answer 9

because religion is HUMAN made Man made Created by US Humans!

Monkeys could have there own beliefe learn to communicate with them instead of them trying to communicate with them!

Answer 10

All animals are capable of developing superstitious behavior.

A wolf is walking through the woods, stops to pee on a bed of a certain type of flowers, looks up and sees a deer. It gives chase, kills, and feasts. A few weeks later, it stops to pee on a similiar bed of flowers, looks up and sees a deer, gives chase, kills, feasts.

Next time it comes upon a bed of that type of flower, it pees on them and looks around for lunch, fully expecting to see a deer.

This is a superstition (and a recorded one as it happens).

Answer 11

Because they didn’t evolve to possess the necessary level of intelligence/reasoning skills.

Did I succeed in irritating everybody with that answer?