Comment Re:Religion is being backed into a corner (Score 2, Insightful) 864
I agree with you 100%.
When I was little, I was fascinated with mythology - Norse, Greek, Egyptian, etc. They used polytheism to explain the things they observed in the natural world but had no understanding of.
As I got older, I thought that perhaps one of the driving forces behind the general acceptance of monotheism was people discovering how things work in the natural world - i.e., that sun doesn't rise and set because Apollo drags it across the sky, but rather due to the spin of the earth as it revolves around the sun.
As human understanding of the world around them grew, the need for these specialized deities became less and less.
Religion has always been a crutch to explain the unknown (or to keep the masses of the poor from overthrowing and murdering the elite rich).
I think you hit the nail right on the head - as the God bin gets emptied and things which were unknown are predictable, reproducible, and explainable, the threat to major religion increases.
Just my $0.02 - don't flame me for having an opinion!
When I was little, I was fascinated with mythology - Norse, Greek, Egyptian, etc. They used polytheism to explain the things they observed in the natural world but had no understanding of.
As I got older, I thought that perhaps one of the driving forces behind the general acceptance of monotheism was people discovering how things work in the natural world - i.e., that sun doesn't rise and set because Apollo drags it across the sky, but rather due to the spin of the earth as it revolves around the sun.
As human understanding of the world around them grew, the need for these specialized deities became less and less.
Religion has always been a crutch to explain the unknown (or to keep the masses of the poor from overthrowing and murdering the elite rich).
I think you hit the nail right on the head - as the God bin gets emptied and things which were unknown are predictable, reproducible, and explainable, the threat to major religion increases.
Just my $0.02 - don't flame me for having an opinion!
