Ancient peoples invented religion because they weren't able to justify their moral perspectives and beliefs to the normies of ancient society. Due to their lack of development the normies of ancient society were likely at the same level intellectually as the modern nigger. So the really smart ancients had to explain to them things like "Hey, rape is wrong. Or hey, murder is wrong" but the ancient normies being basically niggers weren't smart enough to understand that so they had to explain "Well actually, there's these really powerful guys on top of the mountain over there and they created us all and they said rape is bad, and if you rape people they'll come down here and hurt us" and that simple lie created to control society developed into modern religion.You literally believe in a system invented to keep niggers from murdering eachother six thousand years ago
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>>535192515You believe in space balls and shapeshifting monkeys you cryptojudaic cuck
>>535192577>Fedorafaggot thread
>>535192621Yeah, because I can see and visit the space balls and shapeshifting monkeys.
>>535192515>6,000 years ago kike harder Religion was created to explain how humans came to be.
>>535192515No you've got it wrong. Read the Odyssey. Religion is an encapsulation of truths which are subtle and outside of a single human's experiences. It's not to control society, but actually to deliver elements of reality to your brain that you cannot get via experiences/experiments
>>535192774You can see how dumb an atheist cuck is after they type one sentenceYou probably think these Judeo-Masonic negresses are your liberators cause fluoride calcified your brain
>>535192515Anon... I don't even want to argue with you because I really sympathize with you since you're going to be interacting with all sorts of literal retards itt which now compose 90% of this board. The notion that religion is a mind control system that enforces certain behaviors and creates a certain culture is a very basic insight anyone non-retarded agrees with. This is like the first redpill if anything. The next step is realizing that this is actually a good thing because we humans are all retarded and we need it.Also it's not only for shaping behavior and enforcing social norms but also to assuage the terror of death which is also a basic and obvious insight but you can look into terror management theory if you want to refine that point of view.
Exoteric religions exist because normies can't get past the outer circle. It is too scary. They need rules and clear boundaries and men and items or even gods to worship.
>>535192629you dropped this
Nah machine elves are real and we are fucking up by not collaborating
>>535192621>nothing existsThe big bang theory doesn't entail this whatsoever.
>>535192515They needed to explain why we get sick. Things like that.
Wolves act in prosocial ways and even though they are much dumber than humans and don't have religion. I somehow doubt that ancient men were just a bunch of niggers.
>>535192621>>535193171That's christgolem dogma lmao. Magic sky jew created everything out of nothing
>>535192515no, religion was created to tone down the corruption and evil on the land.those that know God dont need religion, those that dont know God and have gone off the deep end do.religions were primarily sets of laws and punishments for breaking them, that's why governments were tied to their religions.religion is what keeps them from destroying others and themselves, that's the primary purpose of religion (except Christianity, wherein God imparts his spirit, now we have God dwelling within)Christianity is the only religion where God sets the people free, in contrast to other religions.religions bind, Christianity sets free.
>>535193211>Religion was invented to explain natural phenomenaAncient pagans tried to explain natural phenomena with natural causes wherever they could. And I haven't heard of them being executed for heresy.
>>535192515rape is a central theme in many ancient stories that were written for common audiences to watch in theater form. those religions represent power, self respect and pride, things that were intended to guide people away from faggot cowardly eastern religions like the one that you think makes you better than black people even though your cousin just brought 30 pounds of fentanyl into the country in the back of a box truck.
I dont think Zeus of all people ever said rape was wrong. Possible that the lesson in the story of Zeus is that a person in authority chasing pussy all the time is dangerous
Mircea Eliade was actually right about the nature of religion.
>>535192621amerimutts are the only people in the civilized world that outright deny evolution>shapeshifting monkeys and cartoon ballsnigger you believe unicorns and talking donkeysand that god sacrificed his his son who is also himself, to himself in order to save humans from his own wrath (even though he supposedly didn't die which means nothing was lost and nothing was sacrificed)and that the creator of the cosmos is obsessed with fucking foreskin and male genital mutilation
>>535193447Hitler denied Evolution, you silly kike.
>>535193447unicorns were real dumbassbut you believe whatever they tell you thats why you think dinosaurs existed when they were just dragons
>>535193447also earths flat space cuck
>>535192515>invented religionyou're fucking stupid>>535192786venus statues should be called cybele statues
>>535192515From the very beginning of the development of western thought, the philosophes have been cognizant of the universality of certain religious rites and beliefs.Among these one can enumerate all manner of rituals, the need for some sort of redemption, the immortality of the soul, the mind, or the human aura, the belief in paradise, hell, or some other place of existence after death, and various others.Most of these have often been explained as a psychological alleviation like a ray of hope against the realization of a futile life capped with the finality of death.Man, it has been said before, is the only animal burdened with this acute awareness.It is also for this same reason that those of an unreligious bent of mind, whether they realize it or not, very often find themselves involved in a continuous search for the supposed meaning of life.belief in an afterlife should not of itself incur a belief in God.Belief in a reward, or punishment, after death, on the other hand, does for someone, or something, must exist to judge and mete out justice.This someone, this something, this God, should logically be exemplary. How come most of mans gods are not?The philosophic endeavor to discern moral precepts in divine action becomes something of a farce when one is confronted with the ungodly activities of most deities. The Greek gods for instance, were guilty of patricide, butchery, cannibalism, rage, jealousy, adultery, rape, incest, deception, and slaughter without equal.These actions are not symbolic of moral precepts, they are the irresponsible adventures of a bunch of delinquent revelers.Why, then, did the Greeks look up to these imperfect gods, build them costly temples, offer them sacrifices, prayers, and invocations, while philosophers endeavored to illustrate the divinity of what they believed to be the orderly universe by comparing it with these gods?
>>535195549The Stoics and pagan apologists had long attempted to spiritualize the myths described by Hesiod and others.This spiritualization, in the form of allegorism, continued as the dominant mode of mythic interpretation well past the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance.Only half way through the 17th century, and more so during the 18th, did philosophers begin to reduce the fantastic episodes of classical mythology to common sense narratives.But this was merely an attempt to deallegorize the myths.The origin of the gods, together with the rites connected with them, remained unexplained.The actions of the Greek gods could no longer be seen as the moral conflict between good and evil between virtue and vice for the simple reason that, according to the myths, the evil, or vice, was more often triumphant than not.Zeus was guilty of more deceptions and rapes than any other god the Greeks venerated.Yet this same Zeus was considered to be the upholder of law and order.If this divine lawlessness could not be explained allegorically, it could only mean that the gods were impervious to their own laws.Pierre Bayle took great pleasure in accumulating tales which told of the lusts of these gods and goddesses who could indulge in incestuous and homosexual rape.To him, the Greek world was a world of sex mad divinities. yet the Greeks of ancient times believed that these actions, normally repugnant even to them despite their hedonistic society, actually took place precisely as narrated by the early poets by Hesiod, by Homer, and others.
>>535193447>you believe unicorns"Unicorn" is only in the KJV. It doesn't refer to the horse with a horn from medieval legend. It's the latin name for a near eastern species of bovid. Retarded fedorafag argument.
>>535192515Humans already had morality through genetics and social pressure. It's only natural that they would use gods to explain it like they did for every natural phenomenon.
>>535195719Pheidias, architect of the Parthenon and sculptor of the colossal Athena Parthenos, was accused of an act of impiety simply because one of the figures on Athenas shield was thought to resemble him.Epicurus, because he was bold enough to teach a school of mixed sexes, caused a scandalous stir in his day.when Praxiteles sculpted his famous Aphrodite, the people of Cos were shocked by the complete nudity of the figure.Socrates, because he preached against the gods, was accused of blasphemy and of corrupting the youth of his time.For that he was put to death.yet these very people, so scandalized by the impiety of their citizens, could look at their upholders of law, the gods, and excuse the atrocious actions they were portrayed as having been guilty of.since our western world owes so much to Classical Greece, should we not wonder at the incongruity of this affair?Should we not ask the question:What was it that made the ancients (and the Greeks were not the only ones) bow their heads to such consistent lawlessness in the lives of their upholders of law?
>>535195873from Greek sources comes the following well known tale of divine family conflict:>The goddess Gaea bore a son called Ouranos and then lay with him in incest>Ouranos children, born of Gaea, planned a revolt against their father>Ouranos therefore imprisoned these rebellious sons>In revenge Gaea inflamed her youngest born, Kronos, to overthrow his father>Kronos hiding in ambush, attacked his father and castrated him with a sickle>He then became lord of heaven in his fathers stead>Fearing a similar rebellion Kronos did not see fit to release his brethren>Worse than that, laying in incest with his sister Rhea, he commenced to devour his own offspring>But when his son Zeus was born Rhea gave Kronos a stone to swallow in his stead>When Zeus grew to manhood, he also attacked his father and deposed him>Like Ouranos and Kronos before him, Zeus then inherited the lordship of heavenWhat philosophical insights could lay buried within this tale of incest, revenge, castration, patricide, cannibalism, stupidity (for how could a god have mistaken a stone for his infant child?) and deception?Not that philosophers have not tried.Pierre Jurieu for instance saw Kronos as a symbol of time which devours what it first produces.Jurieus belief derived from the fact that in Greek, "Time" is rendered Chronos, which concept they then attributed to Kronos.Jurieu did not ask what prompted the Greeks to equate time with their god Kronos and this question should have been asked in view of the fact that Kronos was also the Greek name of the planet we call Saturn.
>>535192515Everyone was smart in ancient greece, niggers hadn't emerged from africa yet. Greek gods were created for all sorts of abstract ideas, like you had gods for all different emotions. It was more about personifying and dramatising abstract observations. Also,people knew right from wrong, they didn't need a story about gods to tell them that.
>>535192577they seethe about religion because it's that R word that is more important than racism
>>535192515I think religion originated with metallurgy/tools/technology and the priest class was also the engineer class and primitive cultures measured value by how much raw metal was mined and refined which they used for trade. And the priests were in their temples making metal change color by alloying it and heating it and going "this has to be divine"
>>535196142to the ancient Greeks the planet Saturn would have appeared as nothing more than a pinpoint of light in the night sky, no different than the way it appears to us with the unaided eye at present.what then, could have impelled the Greeks to equate this pin point of light with the abstract idea of time?when as narrated in the above myth, Zeus deposed Kronos, did he also depose time?Better still, what does it mean that Zeus deposed Kronos?for Zeus was also the Greek name of a planet, that which today is known to us as Jupiter.what could it mean that the planet Jupiter deposed the planet Saturn?despite what philosophers, mythologists, and students of ancient religion might have written in the past, the tale recorded above can have no philosophical meaning at least none that would not be strained.In view of the fact that Kronos and Zeus were actually deified planets, should we not tum our attention to a possible cosmological interpretation of the myth?
>>535195756the fact that you religiously believe in a scripture that was written in some brown semitic language and you need to read flawed shitty translations alone just shows how much of a xenophilic cuck you arealso keep ignoring the other problems I raised like talking donkeys and your rabbi jesus being obsessed with newborn baby penis for some reason
