02-06-2016, 08:40 AM
(02-06-2016, 06:19 AM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: Yikes. Blows my mind people live their life according to this book. I wonder where mankind would be if we were not held back by religion.
Good question. However, I tend to think it might not be as far a long as you might think.
For instance, there are some people that will refuse to listen to the laws made by Man. However they will listen to laws made by God.
To say that killing is wrong. Fine.
Why?
Without the threat of punishment in the afterlife, why is killing wrong?
Just because YOU say so?
Who are YOU?
Society? Well, whose society? There are societies in parts of this world that condone all kinds of things that we in our society would find repulsive. Should we impose our society onto them?
However the concept of a God or Gods and an afterlife in which you are rewarded or punished based on how you lived, is something that can be used to impose order.
Kings used this as a way of controlling the population and making the population believe that God had given them the right to rule. It is one of the reasons some historians believe may have facilitated the spread of Christianity among the Nordic tribes.
We, today, have had many scientific breakthroughs that were not known 2000 plus years ago. Even with the breakthroughs that we have, the question of how we got here is still unknown. Sure we talk about evolution and the big bang, but questions of "Where did the 1st single cell organism come from?" and "What caused the Big Bang?" still remain.
Think what you will about religion and the bible, both were a huge part of our history and were instrumental in shaping our society into what we have today.
