pizzahut451 said:
Porcupine_I said:
pizzahut451 said:
vlad321 said:
DélioPT said:
No, it`s because it contains the words from God and Jesus, along with his life. And that is defining to those who believe. That`s why we call it sacred and not just very important or very meaningful.
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Ok and King Arthur contains the words of Arthur and Lancelot and Merlin, among a bunch of others. Why isn't that sacred?
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Because its made up by man. And people believe New Testament are the words of son of God .A God or higher power is something people believed in ever since their brain was developed enough to think. It all comes own to fatih, after all (weather you believe God is made up by man or higher power really exists)
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i was just thinking about that part the other day. that must have been the exact moment when they also realized that they would inevitably die one day. and they would have to compensate for that knowledge with something that would come afterwards. and that is what religion is fundamentally all about. the possibility about a life after death. and you can only exclain that possibility with a higher power.
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Religion (Christianity, at least) isn't only about afterlife. There is a lot more to it.
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of course, nobody debates this. i was just looking at it from the perspective of the necessity of religion for the prehistoric cultures in general.
and you are right, it all comes down to faith. that means you don't know. you can't know. you are not even allowed to know.
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
- George Orwell, ‘1984’
