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It is also easy to name what would not have occurred but for religion, civilization. Without the cradles of religion, societies would not have coalesced, from the Code of Hamurabi, to Egyptian Monarchs, the Sumerian societies, and even the Minoan societies were based upon religiously linked processes. |
Without religion, society and civilization would not exist. I submit, man's inner search through religion created the outlook necessary to create empiricism.
So you reject religion in the development of all civilization, you would be left to hunter/gathers and no large society. |
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Woot you are beginning the questioning process of Master's students, believing your questions are the answers.
A reading of anthropology would show that religion has played a significant role in the development of modern society. To argue otherwise is insanity. The more important question is what is its future role in modern society. Reasonable minds could disagree on that point, but if you wish to argue religion has not played a significant role in the development of civilization, then you have no credibility and we have nothing to discuss. |
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However, I challenge you to find one primitive civilization and any major ancient society that would not have been created and coalesced without a religion at its center or periphery. The question about bad things arising from religion is non sequitur. Religions involve people and anything involving people will necessarily involve bad and good. Ask a relevant question not a non-sequitur. I don't answer dumb ass questions from Masters students with no life experience. |
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We don't have great knowledge of what most early civilizations believed, but the evidence that we have suggests that they all had some sort of metaphysical belief system. This is not evidence for the usefulness of religion. You're making the exact same mistake I already corrected you on earlier. That they happened to be religious isn't evidence that religion was necessary, or even helpful. If it was in fact helpful, and an argument can be made that it was in certain areas, that still doesn't mean it was necessary or even a net positive. Quote:
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woot we know full well you're a grad student, not a Phd in anthropology, one of the "softest" of all sciences, unlike the hard sciences of physics, chemistry and biology. Yours is a blend of both, but anthropology is still a lot of guesswork.
We will have difficulty "proving" the necessity of a metaphysical belief system, but I've settled it in my mind. Until contrary evidence of a great society formed without one, you'd be hard-pressed to convince anybody that the belief system did not play a significant role in the formation of that civilization. My proof is of the recorded societies from about 3000 BCE on, all had some sort of metaphysical belief system. Pre-historical societies don't appear to have achieved much greatness, until writing developed, and writing is usually linked to religion, governmental and liturgical rites. At least initially. The only societies which reject religious thought are basically later societies which took the earlier benefits of an existing society, i.e., Chinese society. |
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