numberwang said:
Can you objectively state what is right and wrong? Religion is as old as civilization, the oldest buildings are often supposed to be religious in nature (Stonehenge, Göbekli Tepe...) Ethical monotheism has only one god. Polytheism or paganism did not claim moral laws and is irrelevant. |
Nothing is irrelevant, it shows a different belief system based on knowledge at the time. People are curious and want to know how things work, they will try and explain how things work even without fully understanding. Not so long ago people would be killed for witchcraft if they did something that people didn’t understand. You still have people stoning people to death in countries over fidelity or other beliefs. Religion would have you believe that everything is about it, which is not entirely true. Long before religion you had no religion and had the same problems then as we do today, murder, rape, theft etc. The only change is money and power given to the religious establishments. I get why 1000 years ago you could believe in magic and a sun god or any other god would have made sense, now though with the advancements in science and general understanding of how everything actually works to believe in a god is just stupidity IMO. No we are not the only life in the universe, which is proven as fact. The universe is expanding and new species are being found on earth almost daily, which is fact. Heaven and Hell, myth. Do people have a soul? No, do they have an energy that moves on after death? Yes. Again, Science shows that energy cannot be destroyed, only changed. Do memories etc. follow that energy? Who knows, but I doubt it considering you can lose memories with even slight physical brain damage. The only time this planet will ever see peace is when religion is wiped out entirely. The day we all as a human race understand that all people are the same regardless of race or color and that we are all here for the same reason every other animal or plant are here ( procreation ) then we can all work together to improve as a species. Until that happens though we will continue to have wars over religion and land and millions will die over whatever religious belief is popular at the time.
