• Teon@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Fear is the beginning of all religions. They were afraid of the things they didn’t understand, thunder, lightning, perpetual rain, drought. So these things were ‘reasoned’ away by assigning all the gods, zeus, poseidon, etc to be the overseer of those events. Eventually people thought worshiping and sacrifices ‘fed’ or calmed the gods. It is common in all religions and superstitions remain about many aspects of all religions.
    Humanity is able to explain so much now. We no longer spend our time believing all the stories from the clergy, shamans, village leaders, we actually can verify facts.
    We carry computers in our pockets, we are the gods now.