Religion: The Stone Age

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To start discussing on where did religion come from just some background knowledge I know. It could be a myth or it could be true that religion was not thought about back then when people was living. They just understood the way of life and its values and doing most things to understand and satisfied them or their belief. Personally, I was thinking religion come from the Ancient Emperor, Roman, god and goodness of the sun and planets in space. But it has to be a reason why people started believing in values and belief of what right then just living day by day without knowing why you are doing this practice. We know that this phenomenon suggests that human is born with the instinct of religious, while others are insisting from the outside source. …show more content…
Also, mention many stories didn’t care if it was fact or untrue mainly on how they were created as a whole. Stories of an evil demon who created much damage, then one could do relates to today as the devil. One thing I learn was the first religious ritual was imitation was to encourage a situation. Many just thought the world would be how God made it out to be with no change, but that was back then now it different but some events never change.
The Stone Age was a very important era they understood survival and everything that was in their environment was created for a reason. I notice their belief and values are kind of similar but is different in some ways too relating to today. Next, I would mention the theories of religion, few details. Lastly, the Native Americans worship animal and the sun when they would paint their face they worship animals than when the pilgrim came and teach them Christianity and the way of life while teaching the pilgrim these essential eventually form their own survival and their
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Native American religion is focused on nature animal, plants that were passed down to many other events. In the article “A Description and Brief History of the Native American Religion.” Just summarizes their religion include practices, ceremonies, traditions. Those ceremonies had food, music tradition and had creation stories about the animal. The medicine was created by preachers, clergyman, shaman or they had they own medicine men. Native American had their own belief, practice, a tradition was their own tribe. Finally, it transforms to Christian than to

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