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Originally Posted by Billy the Kidd  Actually youre mistaken, belief in an afterlife is what drives religion usually, and its a fear of damnation of some sort that creates the NEED for morality in this life.
The burying of people didnt happen because of clenliness, the 1st humans were hunter gathers, they moved with animal migrations. Burying didnt happen until they started to become situated in areas for long periods of time. And burying someone WITH items, thats the key burying them WITH items, is what I am getting at, is morality. Its them thinking that the dead will need said items in his afterlife.
Dont try to ignore the points i was making because they destroy yours.
It was a confusion of nature that made us think there was a god driving things, and if there is a god driving things then that god has the power to punish us. Therefore behavior is modified. MORALITY is born. |
first of all your points dont come close to destroying mine, in fact your points dont make any sense at all. You claim that burying things with the dead some how demonstrates the development of morality. Exactly how explain it to me I simply cant connect the dots, I see no coralation between the two. Its like saying because I eat a cheesburger I own McDonalds.
We never started out by worshiping gods we started out by worshiping natural occuring things like fire and volcano's things at the time we didnt understand which if you follow history pretty much corralates to religion.
hmmm so when we bacame situated we started burying our dead, but when we were moving around we didnt.
hmmmm were not moving away from a rotting corpse and now we have stench, sickness, how would we get rid of something like that, hmm i dont know we could a burn it or b bury it hhmmmmm