As far as anthropologists have discovered, there has never existed any people, anywhere, at any time, who were not in some sense religious.Since there are marked differences as well as similarities among them, did they start independently, or could they have developed from one source? Why in fact did religion begin at all? And how?
This question was posted earlier by LoveJones. There were not very many respondents and I am interested in getting other peoples input so if you answered LoveJones, please skip this one. Thanks.
2007-02-26 14:04:54 · 10 answers · asked by babydoll 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
None of these responses answer the question of why there so many different religions and why they all seem to have certain teachings in common whether Christian or not.
2007-02-26 14:20:50 · update #1
people afraid of bieng dead forever, make up a god and presto you can live forever.
2007-02-26 14:07:47 · answer #1 · answered by Jason Bourne 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A long long long time ago when the world began. There was no entertainment whatsoever the only entertainment that people had were to tell stories. These people sat around and made up stories about religion and god. As time went on people switched the stories around and that's why there are so many different religions. Have you ever played the game broken telephone? It's the same thing. Religion is just a story that people who had nothing better to do made up.
2007-02-26 14:27:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Human beings during all the times always believed that exist something with more inteligence than us able to build this universe that we see when we look at the sky that we commonly name "God" because God is the Supreme Intelligence--First Cause of all things. Nobody is able to do all the things that He did, for that reason people from all the places and cultures of the world practice all sorts of religions, that is a way of trying to approch to God through faith and the best way of exercise it is by the religion! We don´t have another way to fell closer to God if we don´t take part of a religion!
That´s what I think!
2007-02-26 14:26:23 · answer #3 · answered by Scatman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita - Whenever their is a decline in religious principles and the truth appears to be lost, I appear again and again or send my representative to reestablish the truth."
So Religion is one. It can not be changed. The Vedic term is Dharma. When man puts his filthy hands on the spiritual or religious books then it appears to be lost, so God also known as Krishna, Allah, Jehovah, Vishnu, etc. Has to come again or send His representative again and again. That is why so many religions. want the most recent representatives knowledge of the Absolute truth go to harekrishnatemple.c Read Bhagavad Gita as it is By Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada (empowered representative of God) also for the original new Testament of Christ before king Constantine misconstrued so many things to control the citizens go to gospelofthenazirenes.c The truth is on God is one.
2007-02-26 14:13:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they could have progressed from an analogous undemanding human approach we use to categorize certainty. One very thrilling theory is going by utilising the jargony call "systematic anthropomorphism." What it skill is that we've a tendency to be sure certainty in terms of ourselves, and for sturdy reason. That reason is that we evaluate issues relative to how a lot result they could have, or no longer, on us. So, as an occasion, if a caveman is walking interior the direction of the woods and espies a huge hulking shape that he can no longer fairly make out, he could first anticipate that's a undergo - as adversarial to thinking that is in hassle-free terms a huge boulder. in this sense, that's a sprint like "Pascal's wager." If he "assumes" that's a undergo and that isn't any longer, no prob. yet while he "assumes" that's a boulder and that's a undergo, then he's a meal. the element is we "decide" on the area of which interpretation could influence us greater. the subsequent step in this theory is information that what impacts us maximum are human beings - their movements, thoughts, and so on. From there that is in hassle-free terms a step or 2 to making a universe wherein forces are no longer "impersonal" or "organic," yet rather human-like demons, gods, and fairies. (as a result the fact "God created Adam in His photograph" tells the certainty, yet in an inverted variety.)
2016-09-29 23:14:58 · answer #5 · answered by carol 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Babydoll, I was counting on you to answer this question for me. This id rhetorical right? You do know the real answer don't you? If you don't know you usually find it.
2007-02-28 17:59:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion began when a caveman, trying to hammer the hide off a mastodon, hit his thumb with his club and yelled "JESUS CHRIST that hurt!"
And so Christianity was born.
2007-02-26 14:09:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
probably when people got too smart and then couldn't find out how we began
2007-02-26 14:09:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
WIth God since he is the one to begin with. God said " I am the alpha and omega, the first and the last," and he is.
2007-02-26 14:09:33 · answer #9 · answered by Gods Girl...check my new profile 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
read ur bible, and you will find out
2007-02-26 14:12:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋