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Unread 1 Feb 2007, 16:36   #14
Mighteh
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Re: influence on religion (past and present) on today's non-religious society

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Originally Posted by Baron Morte
how about this logical sequence(timeframe) then:

  1. people settle down and build houses and farms
  2. people fight over land, and kill each other non stop
  3. people realise that fighting will never end so they agree to create a chiefdom to settle disputes
  4. the chief, whose only occupation is to attend to inter personal problems, creates a set of moral rules and principles that cannot be broken
  5. the chief deaclares itself the son of god and there you have a religion
  6. teehee!
As in Guns, steel and germs - jared diamond

well, that, and things that people could never explain...

Girl: "oo... look... lightnign, i wonder where it comes from.."
Dude (know-it-all kind, we still have those, its stupid to assume then werent there before): "From the lightning God, ofcourse, silly. Now go skin that boar and make me some pants and a dinner "


tru story.

aside from the "" part :/
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