What Religion Do You Follow?

[sapphi_snake]

vlad321 said:

sapphi_snake said:

vlad321 said:

I said none, but that also isn't exactly true, but for the purposes of this it is.

I view absolutely all religious scripts and origin stories as most people view fairy tales (seriosuly, I dare you to come up with a good argument how the qoran or the bible are somehow different than king arthur, make my day). I am however interested as to how and why peop[le in different regions came to believe in these tales. It is obvious that different cultures and different geographical areas have their own tale, but I'm curious as to why the tales are so different at times. Furthermore I'm interested why some folowers of a given tale are considered more successful than others. Though that last one is not as hard to see.

Things like environment play a role in creating religions. Also the reason why some religions fail and some don't are usually political in nature.

I was thinking of a bit more deeper nature, like why some people have many gods the others one.

Edit: Even better, is afterlife. The default afterlife for the Aztecs was hell. Only if you died in a few specific ways would you end up in a heaven type of afterlife, some forms of sacrifies were one type which is why it was so prevalent. That's different than other religions. Why?

Since I don't care much about religions I don't really study these things. I've got to admit that that's really interesting, the Aztec thing.

People initially beleived that animals were gods (or that some gods were controlling them), and they drew cave paintings to honor these gods when they killed them. The views regarding religion changed when people started practicing agriculture (ideeas such as life after death, etc.). People got the life after death ideea when they saw that plants withered during autumn, but grew back during spring (little did they know that the plants died, and the ones that grew back were their "children"), so they thought that the same must happen to humans. That's pretty much all I learned about religion at Uni.