I’m genuinely not trying to argue and just trying to understand your train of thought. Do you truly believe that humans were incapable of empathy prior to religion?
Empathy and morals and laws are different. And no empathy is luxury, when your dream is not to get eaten by a predator or not to go to sleep hungry - there is no place for empathy.
Monkeys and even apes eat their own kind.
Historically speaking yes. Religion - the fear of lightning strike / fire, hope for a successful hunt and the big spirits of the darknese - were the foundation for more organized societies.
They did those cave paintings for a reason. And those paintings were already advanced technology compared to very early human development.
Because you are a pre caveman and have no idea of anything.
Let me add to this. It was your shower thought. Anxiety is different for people in different situations. The birth time of religion is the same as speech. Even before speech humans had anxiety about things they couldn’t explain. So everything is belief and superstition. Superstition eventually becomes religion.
So if someone in the past makes a mistake in judgement but we should continue believing in the incorrect assumption because that’s what we did when we were dumb cavemen?
I’m genuinely not trying to argue and just trying to understand your train of thought. Do you truly believe that humans were incapable of empathy prior to religion?
Empathy and morals and laws are different. And no empathy is luxury, when your dream is not to get eaten by a predator or not to go to sleep hungry - there is no place for empathy.
Monkeys and even apes eat their own kind.
So you don’t believe that humans are tribal by nature?
Tribal by default means shared morals. And organized from the top - by religion and shared anxiety
The conclusion I’m coming to is that you believe religion came before society, or do you mean something else?
Historically speaking yes. Religion - the fear of lightning strike / fire, hope for a successful hunt and the big spirits of the darknese - were the foundation for more organized societies.
They did those cave paintings for a reason. And those paintings were already advanced technology compared to very early human development.
Why is lightning strike or fire a religious thing and not physics?
Because you are a pre caveman and have no idea of anything.
Let me add to this. It was your shower thought. Anxiety is different for people in different situations. The birth time of religion is the same as speech. Even before speech humans had anxiety about things they couldn’t explain. So everything is belief and superstition. Superstition eventually becomes religion.
So if someone in the past makes a mistake in judgement but we should continue believing in the incorrect assumption because that’s what we did when we were dumb cavemen?