What do you guys think? That's what I learned in my cultural anthropology class about 15 years ago.
2007-11-27 05:26:40 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Not necessarily, but that IS one of the big reasons
2007-11-27 05:29:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
One of them, yes. Probably the single largest, as it is also related to the 'crop failure', 'natural disaster' and 'disease' factors and fears that are also roots of religion. All of these can cause death and unhappiness.
Fear of all the above prompted people to try and influence the invisible forces (animal spirits, man in the sky etc) that they couldn't understand by placation and sacrifice.
What is the difference between a man in a business suit praying for rain, and a man in an animal skin dancing for rain?
2007-11-27 05:29:57 · answer #2 · answered by Bajingo 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it's more about the search for the meaning of life. Fear of death is simply instinctive, like the fear of pain or of not being able to breathe.
People do want the universe to make sense, and religion helps with that. People also want to feel that goodness and justice will prevail, and they obviously don't always prevail in this world, so religion helps with that.
2007-11-27 05:33:28 · answer #3 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
well we all know were going to die i think its more the fear of what hell is depicted as not so much dying
2007-11-27 05:30:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
i think so. i think it was one of Freud's concepts for religion. fear.
.zoe.
2007-11-27 05:35:11 · answer #5 · answered by bee42 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋