Today
in class we again discussed the idea of religion, only this time we discussed
how it affected the evolution of society. A very interesting point was brought
up that I had never thought about: man created religion in order to coexist. It
is interesting to me to think that our innate instincts of blood thirst and
selfishness put us at the top of the food chain, but that once we were at the
top we ended up fearing ourselves. I also find interesting the fact that
government came about and was based off of religious ideals, such as thou shall
not kill and thou shall not steal. While I do agree that this is one of the
reasons religion was created and that Dostoyevski was very insightful in his
analysis of the situation, I still
firmly believe in my religion and that there were other factors that
contributed to the creation of religion, such as God.
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