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That would require humans to have existed before religion, which is frankly quite ridiculous.
by caskance 11y ago
That would require humans to have existed before religion, which is frankly quite ridiculous.
- wj 11y agoI do not follow?
- Crito 11y agoAre we supposing religious monkeys now? It wouldn't surprise me if earlier hominids were religious as well, but to call any other possibility "quite ridiculous" is really overstepping.
- caskance 11y agoNot if you've ever met a human.
- vacri 11y agoYou don't think that there were humans that existed before any form of codified spirituality? I'd be willing to believe that explicit ritual bonding (marriage) didn't predate religion, but find it hard to believe that the first words we uttered went along with some sort of priestly social class or referenceable rules for living.
- gpvos 11y agoI don't know what the current state of research on this is, but I find it entirely plausible that rituals and social control existed before language.
- vacri 11y agoWell, even creatures as low as termites and sardines exhibit mechanisms for social control - but it's not codified.
- caskance 11y agoWhy does it have to codified?