Man (and Woman) being the first animals capable of thought, looked around, observing things.... Life (humans, animals, plants), elements (wind, water, sky, fire), weather (rain, thunder, lightning), Mountains, Volcanoes and other such natural phenomenon, Sun and stars... tried to understand what it all meant...
With the limited resources and intellect, he thought something very big, very powerful should be behind it. Considering how thunder, lightning and other such things would have appeared to him, they could easily be attributed to the presence of such an omnipresent entity.
On top of all this was the ultimate.. disease, sickness and ultimately death. That has a definite absoluteness behind it. It is the fear of unknown, yearningness to have something more lasting .... Why not look to appeasing this powerful entity to give a longer and hopefully ever lasting life or at least after life.
Give the above thousands of years and the prodigiously increasing capacity for the grey matter - resulting in language, poetry and so on.
Enough of this. I assume you get the picture. The question is this. Is God and religion just this?
It is a fact that earlier humans had …show more content…
After all even historically everyone accepts that they were separated by centuries. Yes there are deep questions that can never be answered by anyone. For example the proof behind certain things will never be shown. The analogy to astrophysics and big bang does not help because the proof there ... while complex , is demonstrated to some extent by applications on a smaller scale via devices which normal people can use (Micro waves:-)). Whats the equivalent of that in philosophy? I cant see anything short of say.. a flashing of lightning in the middle of a clear day during a perumal procession! Or Kaliyan himself correcting a Goshti if they chant something wrong :-) (Imagine that ... that would rattle a lot of
With the limited resources and intellect, he thought something very big, very powerful should be behind it. Considering how thunder, lightning and other such things would have appeared to him, they could easily be attributed to the presence of such an omnipresent entity.
On top of all this was the ultimate.. disease, sickness and ultimately death. That has a definite absoluteness behind it. It is the fear of unknown, yearningness to have something more lasting .... Why not look to appeasing this powerful entity to give a longer and hopefully ever lasting life or at least after life.
Give the above thousands of years and the prodigiously increasing capacity for the grey matter - resulting in language, poetry and so on.
Enough of this. I assume you get the picture. The question is this. Is God and religion just this?
It is a fact that earlier humans had …show more content…
After all even historically everyone accepts that they were separated by centuries. Yes there are deep questions that can never be answered by anyone. For example the proof behind certain things will never be shown. The analogy to astrophysics and big bang does not help because the proof there ... while complex , is demonstrated to some extent by applications on a smaller scale via devices which normal people can use (Micro waves:-)). Whats the equivalent of that in philosophy? I cant see anything short of say.. a flashing of lightning in the middle of a clear day during a perumal procession! Or Kaliyan himself correcting a Goshti if they chant something wrong :-) (Imagine that ... that would rattle a lot of