can we have a scientific talk about the origin of religion please!
what do you think about the old religions (greek, nordic, egyptian, babylonion etc) from a scientific standpoint?
do you think the universal origin was caused by human imagination or by something else? aliens visiting earth 5000years ago? why does the east have a totally different religion (china,japan, etc.)?
i think this topic is interesting since the 3000>years old religions all share some points all over the world (birdpeople for example). from mexico to the middle east (angels in the middle east/birdpeople in south america). what does Veeky Forums think caused this? i mean, the vikings crossed the atlantic centuries before columbus, do you think they forced there religion on the american continent? or was there something else that caused similar religions all over the world?
i'm really interested in your opinion! please keep this thread objective! i want a serious talk please!
Jose Carter
nobody on Veeky Forums has a opinion about this?
Josiah Johnson
Most likely came about as the deification of pre-historical royal families. Judaism can be traced back to ancient canaanite religion with gods like anat, baal, etc. Being very similar to the stories of lucifer
Oliver Howard
This doesnt belong on Veeky Forums
try /x/ or Veeky Forums
Josiah Bennett
>Most likely came about as the deification of pre-historical royal families.
you're right but i'm interested in the very origin of religion. where does it come from?
Adam Jenkins
i want to look at religion from a scientifical standpoint and this doesn't belong on Veeky Forums?
you need to explain this!
Tyler Smith
I think polytheism has greater potential for developing science and research because it offers a way of thinking different, or taking other factors into account, or allowing contrary points of view. monotheism just explains everything from within itself and leaves no rooms for questioning what is beyond the common explanation. monotheism does not facilitate dialogue as much as polytheism.
Nathan Turner
OP here i agree it doesn't contribute to the original question but i agree with you
Owen Barnes
OP here to make another example you have gods that battle "snakes" all over the world. from nordic (thor against the midgardsnake) to indian (i forgot the name... but he battles a snake too) to greek gods (hercules battles a snakes with several heads too).
there must be a shared origin of religion and i want to learn more about it.
Josiah Thompson
If you're interested in this dig up the old Sumerian/Babylonian religious translations and compare them to the modern Torah/Bible/Koran ect. You'll notice they are all based on the exact same stories, if not outright plagiarised like the book of Genesis which is nearly a word for word copy of a much older Babylonian story.
Honestly there's nothing interesting in the desert religions, they're basically just copies of each other and a bunch of parables. If you want some real mind blowing weirdness check out the origins of Hinduism and some of their beliefs they incorporated some pretty interesting propositions in physics/math into their core ideology.
The Vikings wrote a bunch about their trips to Greenland/N. America and all they did was basically set up a camp to plunder and send goods back home, they had very little interaction with the natives except for when the natives (scraelings they called them) ran them off after a few months. It is suspected the Vikings traded red cloth to them but nobody really knows, it's more likely they left a lot of red cloth behind and the natives plundered it.
tl;dr the best way to learn these things is find a reputable university with historical/anthropology research departments and look up papers, look up grad classes, ect.
