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| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
Are you speaking of the variety of pantheons that encompassed the world, or just the sheer number of Gods each one had?
Reason being, monotheism brought about a rather militaristic, authoritative cohesion to swaths of mankind; As the technology between travel and communication evolved, so did the transmission of likewise belief which merely galvanized unity to an unheard-of scale, what with the Persian and Roman empires becoming the new standard for nation-states, Proselytization through force, as well as the evolution of mankind's standard for "survival".
Religion, itself, has only ever been a primarily social institution fixated on tribal cohesion - reducing things down to one God, one portfolio of tenets, is more of a consolidation dynamic than it is a phasing out of mystical thought. |
Yes but none of those civilisations had the understanding of the world that we do in modern times. Generally though as we got smarter, we stopped believing in something as ridiculous as the god of fire, but we created beings with even greater powers.
There must come a point where the majority of the population is so well educated that science, mathematics and rational thinking will overcome beliefs in something that has no proof whatsoever. A more agnostic view if you will.
At least that's what I hope will happen, because I turned from religious to not and I don't see why others couldn't as well.
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