What if you were never exposed to any religion, any humans, and say a group of gorillas raised you. How would you ever know that there's a God, I mean if God exists like certain people claim then it should be an innate instinct to believe. Certain people claim that all animals were created by God, well then do gorillas believe in God? If you weren't taught to believe then how would you ever know, who would tell you that eating pork is bad for instance. If you grew up in Thailand would you be christain, if you grew up in Egypt would you be buddist. Wouldn't all this show that religion is just a matter of what one is taught to believe in by upbringing, by what a book others wrote says to believe in, by society, and culture?
2007-03-07 09:19:04 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
btw the gorillas were a hypothetical situation, to try and better explain my argument that humans are responsible for thinking and creating, which is what God would be a "creation".
2007-03-07 09:31:56 · update #1
Never having spoken to a gorilla, I would think they don't know about God, But something or someone has to be behind all this, guess we'll just have to wait and see?
2007-03-07 09:24:03 · answer #1 · answered by crazycatlady4real 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Theoretically god is the invention of humans to explain everything that can not be explained rationally or scientifically. So if your raised by an ape you may think the wind, sun, a storm, lightning are all acts of a higher power or powers.
However if you were raised by apes your brain might not have developed properly. As brain development happens early in childhood. Therefore you would be mentally challenged. You would not be able to think of higher powers. Instead you will be more "animalistic" and your thinking would be based on reaction, not on human emotions.
2007-03-07 17:30:19 · answer #2 · answered by iceblendedmochajavo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Consider we still don't know the thought processes of animals about what they know or don't know and how that knowledge is processed.
They may in fact be fully aware of God - or not. Neither you nor anyone knows for sure. There are no human beings qualified to make the decision.
This is Just FYI for additional thought.
2007-03-07 17:51:51 · answer #3 · answered by Victor ious 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you have a good point but I believe GOD makes a point to use others to get the GOOD NEWS around. I didn't necessarily grow up in a relioug house hold but i learned about Jesus and GOD and noone had to force me to. GOD knows all and he has attempted to gt the news to everyone. Its our job to listen.
Also i think tarzan was the only one raised by gorillas. so lets stick to facts
2007-03-07 17:24:59 · answer #4 · answered by young_steffers 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
With our current technology, it's impossible for people not to know Jesus Christ as God. Even dolphins can communicate with people nowadays. Or even close, a chimpanzee. So, for discussion's sake, if a person never heard of God, then the Bible say, that the person will be judged according to his beliefs. I think the major concern is, what's going to happen if that person dies?
That person will be judged according to his beliefs.
Unless we invent a "phone" to talk to God, we'll just have to read the Bible, won't we?
2007-03-07 17:30:14 · answer #5 · answered by cowboybuboy 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Children who have grown up without the influence of other humans have no concept of God or af an afterlife. Children who grow up in horrible orphanages where they rarely see an adult, have no belief in God of any kind. Humans get the idea of God from other humans.
2007-03-07 17:31:05 · answer #6 · answered by Huggles-the-wise 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
excuse me, did you perhaps know that native-americans believed in spirits before they were taught jack-crap. Also some children in abused homes who weren't taught a single concept on religion or belief in a God (who never went to school or had outside contact) were talking severly neglected left-to-die kids (look it up on Montel Williams) ....one stated while being left to starve in a closet, they began thinking of a creator or higher power; they felt they were being left to die and had belief that someone must have put them there...and all they could do was pray to a higher power....imagine that.
2007-03-07 17:26:13 · answer #7 · answered by Virgo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There would certainly still be capacity, as a child raised in an Amish community would still be capable of becoming an atheist. This is existensialist philosophy 101.
2007-03-07 17:22:28 · answer #8 · answered by Convictionist 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I guess so. Would I also be walking around saying "Apes are not descended from humans!" or "If evolution is true and we are descended from humans why are there still humans?" or do you think that the Gorilas would be better able to accept and understand science.?
2007-03-10 23:43:10 · answer #9 · answered by U-98 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, good argument.
2007-03-07 17:24:33 · answer #10 · answered by Blackbird 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋