Could religion be born out of human instinct for aspirations to be supreme?

Answer 1

No, religion is not born from human instinct.

As Christians we believe In Christ who came down from Heaven and revealed to us who God was.

Answer 2

I think religion was born out the mind of an animal with aspirations to be supremely human. The sublimation of the animal instinct for survival transformed harmless unwanted animalistic impulses into something terribly harmful: human instincts for religious supremacy. This wasn't a distracting release but rather a destructive and valueless piece of work.

When faced with the dissonance of uncomfortable thoughts, the lower form of animal created a form of religious (i.e. psychic) energy that had to go somewhere. Sublimation channeled this energy away from constructive and benign animal acts and into something that was socially unacceptable and/or creatively ineffective: human aspirations for religious and political supremacy.

The so-called animalistic sublimation of aggressive "human" urges sublimated the highest desires of healthy animals to love others into human desires to embrace ritualistic activities of formal competition: war, politics, environmental destruction, ridicule and a host of world religions and messed up psychology.

Answer 3

I think that part of it has an evolutionary cause: Human beings, as animals, align themselves in hierarchies, and the desire to have an "alpha male" (or female) keeps cropping up. God (or Goddess) can be seen as simply the ultimate alpha being, a projection of the human psyche onto the universe. Whether or not this projection has any reality of its own is a whole different subject.

Answer 4

I would think just the opposite. Religion (theistic) never makes the human supreme.

Answer 5

Potentially, I'd access our data banks under the term "God gene" as this explains the 3 genes that contribute to the propensity to accept a belief system. I don't recall off hand what the survival benefits of the characteristics were though.

Answer 6

You don't need a religion to do this. You simply live your life as if you were your own god. Atheism is a prime example.

Religion simply obfuscates the truth and leads people away from the one true God and into false, man-made doctrine.

Answer 7

I do not want to be supreme,I want to be a little sheep,with The Lord Jesus as my Shepard.

Answer 8

I think it's more likely to be born out of the wish to be immortal and secure in that fact. To assuage the fear of death and dying, seems more likely to me.

Answer 9

the first religions began as a way to cope with ghost fear, as humans conciousness of self evolved, so did our ability to believe in invisible realities, which was scary

the priests, (shaman, healer, etc) filled the gap between the invisible world and this one, and they had to do a lot of singing and dancing to convince the rest of us that they were legit

we were all scared enough to believe they were

Answer 10

Pet,
NOT from what I have seen in the BIBLE. Read, study, and obey HIS HOLY WORD. Have a great weekend.
Thanks,
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