Religion is an anthropological constant throughout human history. In addition, the occult, spirituality, and other forms of divination have been present in almost every human society.
If the idea of God were to have an evolutionary basis, why isn't their a consistent global monoculture of religion that would have developed independently in various parts of the world? Why are the religions of more "archaic" societies based on animism and many deities while more organized ones tend to be monotheistic? What explains the trend from simple to complex and changing religious practices?
Atheists please keep the fedora out of this; this is an anthropological discussion, not an existence, non-existence of otherworldy things ones.
>>529897
This is the most pretentious thing I have read all day. Please kill yourself.
wtf did I just read
>>529897
You may get better answers on /b/ where you belong.
Hello, Reddit!
>>529897
>>>/reddit/
>>529897
Fuck off, reddit.
>>529897
*tips fedora*
>>529897
*tips fedora*
>>529897
Looks like you fucked your own thread over with that last line, m8.
>>529897
Jung said some stuff vaguely about this.
>>529897
*tips fedora*
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>>529897
>Religion is an anthropological constant throughout human history
*recorded human history
Moron.
>>529897
>Try and start a serious discussion about the nature of religion and why it came about;
>GTFO REDDIT *TIPS FEDORA*
>>529897
*tips fedora*
>>529897
What's trending in /r/atheism?
Perhaps it predecessor is fear. As fears evolve from (rational) simple to (irrational) complex so do the religious theory's. Based on the mystical elements to life. Maybe
>>529897
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sociological_and_anthropological_metatheories_of_religion&redirect=no
>>529897
>Why are the religions of more "archaic" societies based on animism and many deities while more organized ones tend to be monotheistic?
I don't think we have enough data to claim that. We can only observe past religions through written content, and we don't know if monotheistic religions were really rare during the 95% of unwritten history we don't have access to.
Although, maybe sedentarity and neolithic revolution brought a social reality more favorable to monotheism. Polytheistic or animists cults are efficient are giving a description of reality, for man to understand his surrounding. Monotheistic cults are better to develop moral codes, something sedentary societies, due to the high number of people they include, need more than nomadic groups.
Why is everyone pissed off?
OP asked a legitimate question
I know pretending to be christian is the big meme now but seriously
Well, from a Christian perspective, a lot of society's worshiped demons. God chose a people amid this Satan-ruled world, and guided them to righteousness, and then came down in human form to commune with them and make them like him, and that is where Christianity comes from. And then Mohammed heard about it and thought he was a prophet and so started saying stuff that he found out was heretical, so it became a separate religion.
>>529897
>Why are the religions of more "archaic" societies based on animism and many deities while more organized ones tend to be monotheistic?
That's wrong. You are only saying that because monotheistic religions now dominate the world. Monotheism comes from pastoral societies like the Mongols or the the people of Abraham. Their life centers around a sheppard and his flock, so they create a sheppard god.
