Does this have any function if the formation of religious beliefs?
2007-10-16 11:44:48 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Part 1: Yes. Humans are hard-wired to be afraid of falling and loud noises. Hard-wired fear of things that slither and spiders is debated in the scientific community, but they are quite deep-seated. Humans, along with most other primates, also fear being alone. There is a universal human need for community and companionship. If a baby is fed only on milk, without ever being fed love, the result is something not quite human.
Part 2: The fear of falling and loud noises has little to do with our various religions. The fear of being alone has everything to do with our hard-wired need for community and relationships, and therefor our need for religion. Every culture in the world plays music, dances, speaks, and has religion.
2007-10-16 12:01:19 · answer #1 · answered by Jonathan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some perhaps, but not every one. Some children have very little fear of anything and some fear everything and these tendencies could make one more prone to question or the other to accept something because they are afraid of the negative aspects of it. Those would be the polar opposites and I would suppose the majority would ride in the middle with a balance and which pole they gravitated to would also depend on physical environment and parental conditioning.
2007-10-16 18:59:18 · answer #2 · answered by genaddt 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Likely, and unlikely. Small children are often afraid of loud noises. But religious beliefs arose when survival was much more iffy than it is now; if the game were not caught, or the crops failed, people would die. To avoid this, it was at least plausible to try to propitiate any gods that might have been involved -- just in case.
2007-10-16 18:52:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are born with certain instincts as the animal world is, however we have to learn to be afraid of things. we do not know fire is hot until we touch it.
Children are not afraid of heights until they are told.
I read a study on babies where small infants were given the task of crawling over a Plexiglas sheet to their toy 3 feet above the floor. They all tried to get it without any thought or fear of height.
Simple test.
2007-10-16 18:54:11 · answer #4 · answered by Get A Grip 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humans are hardwired to trust their parents. If their parents instill religious beliefs, there is a very high probability that the child will be religious. If the parents do not - the child will probably not be religious.
2007-10-16 18:49:50 · answer #5 · answered by qxzqxzqxz 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
95% of what humans do is based on fear. Because the body can be easliy damaged. We fight wars to have things we think we need. Get jobs out of fear of being without food and shelter. Even much of our behavior is designed to keep people at a distance. Bullying, making fun, criticizing. All defensive. Or more accurately, offensive. Since many people stay on others, to keep them from getting on them. Which doesn't work of course, because the more they stay on us, the more we have to get on them, to get them off of us!
PSYCHADELIC!
2007-10-16 18:57:19 · answer #6 · answered by THE NEXT LEVEL 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Religions could get many more converts if they said belief in god would permenantly remove clowns and spiders from their world (two things all my girlfriends have been afraid of.)
2007-10-16 18:49:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
God made u so that when ur doing something sinfull the Holy Spirit should tell u something
2007-10-16 20:24:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A good question, never thought about it until now, i think so
2007-10-16 18:48:46 · answer #9 · answered by Delightful 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
humans are born with one basic instinct and that is to suck. everything else we learn to do. suck meaning on a nipple
2007-10-16 18:48:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋