Wuwop;8237848 said:
kingblaze84;8236778 said:
The Lonious Monk;8236047 said:
Well I watched Supernatural and she's the mother of all monsters. She went down kinda easy for a boss character though. She was no match for those Winchester boys.
Seriously though. When people start to realize that these religious texts are just stories thrown together by people with agendas, then questions like this will make more sense. I'm not saying this to down play religion. It's just a fact. You can't pick up the Bible and think that the way it is now was the way it was a couple thousand years ago. Back then the Bible as we know it didn't exist. There were just hundreds of texts out there that told different stories. The people that put it together did so with specific intentions in mind. A different set of people could have put the Bible together and it might be completely different. Lilith might have been the first Genesis woman and Eve would have been the after thought. Hell, someone like Judas could be a hero instead of history's greatest traitor.
Very true, religion in the end is a culture system that becomes widespread. There's a reason Christianity is most popular in areas that were dominated by Christian conquerors, and Islam most popular in areas dominated by Muslim conquerors. Christianity is changing in many ways now because of culture, look at all the American and European churches having female pastors or even supporting gay weddings. It's because American and European cultures are changing how they view these things. Jesus himself claimed to be changing some of the culture of the Old Testament, so we can see how religions just morph and change for whatever time a culture becomes different. Basically, religion is man made culture.
im taking a history class now and you stand correct according to the cacs texts, it seems as if religion didnt propser by the powerful word of the "lord" it prospered by the hand of the sword....shit is crazy how them niggas used religion as a method of order and influence but for the sole purpose of control....
i wonder how much knowledge has been lost due to conquest and conversion....
the more i read and learn about history the more sus organized religion looks
I can't even imagine all the knowledge and artifacts that were lost. And yeah religion historically spread the most after wars and conflicts, the winners get to spread their religion around, losers get their religious priests killed and others get scared and convert. If Spain, Portugal, England and other nations didn't go around the world taking land and resources with priests or pastors all up in the mix, Christianity wouldn't be widespread as it is now.
Without the bloody expansion of the Ottoman Empire, I doubt Islam would be the 2nd biggest religion in the world now. To be fair, trade is also a big reason religion spread, I'm still debating with myself on if trade or war spread organized religion faster.