2007-12-09 15:52:09 · 25 answers · asked by Free Thinker 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's largely intertwined with gullibility, I mean back in the day when things couldn't be explained, like thunder, disease, and all of the sort, people's peace of mind and curiosity would trigger assumptions of the cause of these things.
Religions have been bent and twisted over the years in order to control people, not so much nowadays. But a time ago rumours of actions going against God's would be enough to stop people from doing things. I'm sure the powerful learned to wield religion and control the weaker. It probably started off quite innocent.
2007-12-09 15:59:24 · answer #1 · answered by chalky_lime 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Religion started with the need to understand phenomenons of the nature: thunder, earthquakes, lightning etc.
Also to answer the meaning of life: where I came from, why we are here and where are we going.
Religions also were the first form of legal codes where the religious leaders observed the behaviors of the tribe members and determined what is allowed and what was not (Ten Commandments for instance).
Science slowly start to replace some of the religious explanations of nature's phenomenons and now religious are becoming a personal option rather than a society's.
Communication is also giving religious options to people around the world.
2007-12-09 16:01:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
True belief in God ever hear of adam and Eve??? Oviously belief in god has been ppassed along since the beginning ! For those lost souls ....who worshiped something other then god they were so lost and fearful of the unknown that they created something to fill or explain the absence of an explanation! I feel sorry for those people to this very day who still do not know God!
2007-12-09 15:59:28 · answer #3 · answered by Rosemary c 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There could be many reasons. Human nature makes us either want a leader, or want to lead. People who wanted a leader bad enough could have had a dream about some almighty power telling them to spread their word to, say kill everyone who doesn't believe in them, for instance. Then, others believe them and brain wash their children and there you go. You've got yourself a religion. It also could have been started by someone who wanted power. Someone says, "Hey, I can just make up a god, get some followers and they'll do anything I say this god tells them to."
2007-12-09 16:03:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
All of them, Greed, power, true belief in a god.
2007-12-09 15:55:55 · answer #5 · answered by kaipeng 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, the few figured out they could scare the many into submission and control if they forged a religion with an invisible being who could make things bad for you, or why they said made a command to have someone put to death or exiled if they broke a law. Later, it wasn't just the current life of the many that they controlled, but the 'afterlife' also, once they developed the 'afterlife'. It's all about CONTROL.
2007-12-09 15:59:10 · answer #6 · answered by Another Guy 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I guess that religion was born from man's tendency to turn towards the spiritual, seeking answers and meanings and greater truths. Basically, to make sense of the world and man's place in it.
2007-12-09 15:58:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think early man wondered what it was all about and felt there was something more out there so prayed for rain or a good hunt or something like that and religion was started
2007-12-09 15:58:03 · answer #8 · answered by Experto Credo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Religion is always started by man, thus it is innately filled with greed, power and corruption.
Faith, however, comes down from God. Thus faith in and of itself and pure and holy.
2007-12-09 15:54:47 · answer #9 · answered by Ryan H 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
True belief in god
2007-12-09 15:54:29 · answer #10 · answered by Dyablo 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋