Origin of Religion

**CobraStallone** · October 23, 2009, 05:06 PM

Where do you think religion comes from?

**Mr. Pink** · October 23, 2009, 05:08 PM

Profit and Power!

**InsaneHanz** · October 23, 2009, 05:09 PM

How about man created it to explain his world?

**CobraStallone** · October 23, 2009, 05:14 PM

Originally Posted by InsaneHanz

How about man created it to explain his world?

Didn't think about it, but I kind of was talking more about organized religion, not so much as the beliefs on higher beings per se.

**Pious Agnost** · October 23, 2009, 07:32 PM

Originally Posted by InsaneHanz

How about man created it to explain his world?

**Tacitursa** · October 23, 2009, 07:38 PM

Would a christian please respond to what i said. I would prefer it if it was a christian that voted for the god option.

Christianity was not the first religion.

So if the origin of religion came from god , Christianity is not the correct religion. The first ever religion is.

Do christians choosing the god option beleive christianity is the first religion?

**cfmonkey45** · October 23, 2009, 07:55 PM

Originally Posted by Wizav85

Do christians choosing the god option beleive christianity is the first religion?

No. Judaism is believed to be the first god-inspired religion, however, with the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross a new covenant was formed (as distinct from that of Abraham and Moses) to share the knowledge of God with both Jews and Gentiles.

Being "first", in terms of religion, is irrelevant.

**~~sabaku_no_gaara~~** · October 24, 2009, 11:34 AM

Originally Posted by cfmonkey45

No. Judaism is believed to be the first god-inspired religion, however, with the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross a new covenant was formed (as distinct from that of Abraham and Moses) to share the knowledge of God with both Jews and Gentiles.

Being "first", in terms of religion, is irrelevant.

Isn't Zohoastrism older?

**Playfishpaste** · October 24, 2009, 01:20 PM

Originally Posted by Wizav85

Would a christian please respond to what i said. I would prefer it if it was a christian that voted for the god option.

Do christians choosing the god option beleive christianity is the first religion?

Christianity believes one religion was taught by god, the others were created by man.

**~~Ummon~~** · October 24, 2009, 01:54 PM

Originally Posted by Playfishpaste

Christianity believes one religion was taught by god, the others were created by man.

Not really: divine grace inspired the others in many instances, although they are not revealed.

**Pallantides** · October 23, 2009, 07:48 PM

Originally Posted by InsaneHanz

How about man created it to explain his world?

Originally Posted by sabaku_no_gaara

Early man trying to find an explanation for what it couldn't explain, or didn't understand.

this.

**Banana Jelly** · October 23, 2009, 05:10 PM

Profit and Power? I can understand that with the pope, but who gets power from religion?

I can bet my $5 that you know full well what majority may choose. Yet you create this thread.

**CobraStallone** · October 23, 2009, 05:11 PM

Originally Posted by The Guy You Met At School

Profit and Power? I can understand that with the pope, but who gets power from religion?

Let's say the first guy who said there were gods and that he was an intermediary between man and them for example. But if you don't agree with this reasoning choose another poll option.

**InsaneHanz** · October 23, 2009, 05:13 PM

Originally Posted by The Guy You Met At School

Profit and Power? I can understand that with the pope, but who gets power from religion?

I can bet my $5 that you know full well what majority may choose. Yet you create this thread.

Any government can get a lot of power from religion.

**persianfan247** · October 23, 2009, 05:18 PM

I think there should be a fifth option, I don't think religion was created with the intention of empowering or enriching someone I guess it probably came about naturally through worshiping people and animals whom subsequently turned into something far more powerful than a Hero or something that gives or takes lives, I would guess that some people after religion appeared probably used it to empower themselves, but also I am sure there would be the odd prophet or whatever who really believed what they were teaching or revealing and were probably a bit loony.

**Confederate Jeb** · October 23, 2009, 05:15 PM

God taught it to man. Doesn't seem like the fully correct wording, but it's the closest.

**CobraStallone** · October 23, 2009, 05:16 PM

Originally Posted by Confederate Jeb

God taught it to man. Doesn't seem like the fully correct wording, but it's the closest.

I excuse myself for my english

**MaximiIian** · October 23, 2009, 05:16 PM

Neither of them. Man developed it to make a coherent, systematic worldview and formulate cultural practices that would shape around that worldview. Ethical/moral philosophy is a part of this, but so are metaphysics and (primitive) sciences. Mind, most religions that exist today have changed and adapted to fit their worldview to the times; this is a good thing- they wouldn't be relevant if they didn't.

True, some people have used it for personal gain, especially in cases of civic or state religion.
But that is not the fault of the concept itself; that is the fault of those individuals.

**Rex Armeniae** · October 23, 2009, 05:18 PM

Man didnt know who he was or why he existed, so as man had good fantasy he used tales to explain all these questions. Other people believed in this, they believed the man who had this great fantasy and in the end, Religion was created to answer questions.

Soon.... smart people used religion to gain power, scare and control people and to earn profit.