Dogmafood writes:
Thanks for the welcome and the replies. It sure feels like my kind of place. I am like a hungry man who found the buffet table.
You're welcome.
It is a bit of a nebulous thought but could it be that the god concept is a necessary product of an intellect at out stage of development?
I would say yes, but with a twist. See, in the "beginning" as homo spaiens was a newly emerging species, we of course did not have scientific explanations for even the most basic things (plants growing, lightning, the seasons), and becuase people don't like not knowing, and thus, not having any influence over something, they "invented" gods, so that they could "influence" things, even if it was by sacrificing and praying to the gods, who would still decide on their own wim to regard the sacrifice/prayer or not.
It certainly seems to be omnipresent.
Well, religions have become very good at indoctrinating people from a young age onward.
Are there any cultures that do not have or never had a god concept?
Not that I know, though strictly speaking, Buddha is not a god.
Perhaps these questions belong in a different thread.
Well, you could always propose a new topic over at the
Proposed New Topics forum.
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