And then leaders discovered that they can control other people with religion. Nothing was more effective and powerful to make people do what the leaders wanted than saying "God told me that you should do that". So religion grew big and organised.
+Jeong-hun Sin I know right! Not it's just time to find this secret formula that's going to make their empire collapse in their own disgust they created for greed and what ever (if bad).
+Jeong-hun Sin And than it was banned by leaders and replaced it with personality cults and nationalism which was in a sense a cult to the nation state. And while one could not prove the existence of god or gods, its hard to argue against the idea of a nation state. And than we learned religion isn't the only tool of control.
faith give a positive feeling to humans no matter what do you believe in and because of their feelings they think they doing right or wrong but the question humans have to ask them selves is how do i know that ideas or thoughts makes me feel good and comfortable are correct in reality.
@@angryyoungman66 No, people need to understand that right and wrong are concepts created by humans. There are no morals, because morals are all concepts created by humans. The Universe has no morals, there's no right or wrong. But if we're living in a civilized society, I know not to kill someone because that's a social norm not because God told me not to.
@@ryderwashington4199 any way we agree that we humans based on our point of view to world we created the morals the good and bad meanings it didn't came from God or something else.
The way I see it, religion started to try to explain what people couldn't yet answer. Why did the sun rise and set? Why does it rain? Why do we die? Today religion is still used to try to answer the questions we can't answer. Why are we here? What's our purpose in this world? What happens after death?
+Collin “Ser Buckman” Buckman That's a good way of thinking however RELIGION (some/most) try to overwrite answeres we have already found for the sake of valadity of their religion. What a joke.. :(
Still doesn't make it right. If you ask a scientist something that's not answered by science yet would you rather he answered "don't know" and give plausible possibilities instead or he makes up some answer that's not based on reality at all? I prefer the first. It's not wise to make up an answer it's much better if you're just honest. Just say "I don't know" when you don't know. Unfortunately the majority of people don't work like this they'd rather be fed sweet lies.
As an athiest I can definitely respect the origin of religion and at a time where we simply could not prove one way or another; their stories answered their questions, gave them hope, even answering things that we will never know (namely death). However we have grown up significantly and everyone should question their beliefs, their origins and see if you discover that what you have always believed doesn't quite fit, make sense or seems very out-dated.
@@abubkrshyk thats true but like I haven't seen anyone believe something came out from nothing, if you're talking about the big bang no scientist ever said the big bang comes from nothing they are literally dont know and also I can also say God came from nothing and the universe is eternal and has always existed
"The imagination of those who had biological potential for genius and those of 'normal' intelligence were limited by their culture" I see that a lot within that which you call "modern society".
So true Enrique. The ones who proved themselves more adept at doing things, coming up with better strategies for the hunt or what have, keener senses that the others came to trust and rely on more, etc. Those more gifted than the average at this stage were most likely able to demonstrate their elevated skills and intelligence and have such be more readily accepted than is the case in modern times. I just don’t buy that they were more stymied. And the anthropological evidence exists to show a steady rate of invention/innovation which compounds due to past achievements, faster and faster as is still the case today, even though spiritual/religious beliefs, no less fantastical than the earliest primitive humans held mind you, persist.
To every religious soul out there: BIBLE (KJV) John 10:1 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Lies.....the flying spaghetti monster created the first man out of mozzarella sticks and meatballs and the first woman out of garlic bread as it is written in noodles in the Book of Pastafarianism.
Really, really cool to think about. Personally, I love learning about how things got started - language, writing, religion, humanity, life itself, even the Universe (and what'll happen to it). I prefer bases of observation of the world around us over religious ones, though I can see how easy and convenient it is to chose religion - it's something that generations before you has gone with and you don't want to disappoint them, and it's generally less of a strain on the mind than atheism, enabling you to get on with the rest of your life.
What if God was all and nothing, creator and destroyer, you and me, every blade of grass, every inch of space, an entirely different realm that affects all the rest, is everyone of them gods mentioned in ancient history aswell as the gods of religions today and those yet to be thought of. It knows the future yet doesn't correct it. For it nothing is wrong as it all happens for a reason, that callousness and vileness had its place in it only to cause the goodness and wonders of the worlds and all life is one small part of it. Cos that's as far as I can see of God but I believe it's there
2:33 "Their view of the world came to them with invented stories. These were stories that were told and accepted without recognition of a difference between fact and fantasy." A pretty good description of UA-cam cartoons about the paleolithic, each with a different twist.
I'm confused. How do you propose to know what cave men told stories about? By looking at their cave paintings? But that could be about anything. I'm confused about your evidence for know what those people thought at all.
I'm sure a comparison of various hunter gatherer peoples is useful but hardly conclusive. Natives of Australia, Papa New Guinea and the Americas had such varied beliefs and even where these people did paint on rocks we are still talking about a people separated by thousands of miles and years with again different beliefs and reasoning.
This video was not meant to be a portrayal of an actual historical event. It's more of a story that gives you an idea of where religion comes from. No one says this has to be taken literally.
I did really like the video, but I think you should make a part 2. Modern Religion should definitely be covered as well, since it is the most influential
@@beepboop8484 i mean when you compare a religion from 2k years ago to religions from 10s of thousands of years ago, they don't sound that old. for example the time between the building of the pyramids and Cleopatra is more than the time between us and Jesus
@@donaldmjbart-williams3144 Wokeism is a modern religion gaining a fast and devout following, it even attempted an inquisition in Qatar but most people were just interested in watching some Football. You could also call LDS, scientology and many other modern.
To sum it all up, there's just so much power drawn to the unknown. Be it fear or excitement, or skepticism, or just the joy of discovery, the unknown(or the unproven, as I might prefer) shakes us all to our core. The inevitable ends. The undeniable conclusions. Oh, such is life.
What a limited view and disrespect of the the world, our history and any religion. This video is nothing but subjective and has simply no research value.
***** How is he wrong? Study anthropology, physiology, and biology if you want to understand what makes man tick. Seems only disrespectful if you hold an absolute truth that is unquestionable and not open to new information. I'm guessing you have a favorite holy book.
77macgruber the last two lines are very telling. He's basically saying "stupid cavemen couldn't do anything right" But if you look at the evolution of society from hunter gatherers we see all the elements of agriculture developed and used long before agriculture and then they are all brought together to form an agriculture society. Comparing that to other societies around the world. We discover that the lack of progress is simply an energy efficiency problem. We see the societies that had grains, which could be planted while running around naked spreading seeds while being chased by another person in a costume would still grow. Societies that had labor intensive plants that didn't give as much back just couldn't provide as much for their society and thus more energy was expended finding food than doing other things. It's incredibly disrespectful of the people in ancient times and how they progressed and had a huge modern day reinterpatation. There was no effort in putting on the time goggles.
It's a very basic, practical video with some obvious errors. While yes, 'biological geniuses' may have been stunted by culture (was this your attempt at connecting to the modern day world?) I must remind you that the creation of religion was also the first science. Without these primitive beings looking up at the sky and asking themselves what made the sun move across the sky, we would never have been able to come as far as we have. So I'd say that religion is the product of the biological geniuses, who, although limited by environment, still asked 'Why does this work?'.
Skinnymarks "the last two lines are very telling. He's basically saying "stupid cavemen couldn't do anything right" " That was the only part of the video I didn't like. It felt like an assertion based on no real evidence; just a prejudiced view of primitive, animistic societies as inherently inferior and incapable of real thought or progress, with no consideration about the inherent limitations primitive societies would have had in that era, when people had to struggle every day just to survive and didn't have the privilege of simply going to the super market for food and all the cushy technical advancements that we have today.
Honestly, not believing in a religion has made me more "spiritual." People need to stop being so afraid of this video, and become more conscious beings with a better understanding of the environment they live in. From where religion came from, to why we perceive things the way we do by understanding our biological functions, the understanding of what composes reality itself. Period. that's all you need to know, and there's TONS AND TONS of information out there people just ignore, and are afraid of because they feel frightened it will hurt their beliefs. Embrace the enigma we call life, and realize the truth lies within us all. stop being blinded by culture and religion.
+XcccVcccX I embrace the idea of being open to new ideas. However I don't understand why people talk about "a" religion. I honestly believe that religion is nothing more than just a word in order to discriminate people in categories: people who believe in an intelligent creator and people who don't. You can't just give a criteria (for example: simplifying reality in order to understand it) to those categories (in this case, those who believe in a deity are simplifying reality; that is, according to this video and your comment). Doing so, in and of itself is simplifying reality so that one can understand it. In order words, you are doing the very same thing that you accuse others of. There is no "a" religion, religion is nothing more than a philosophy. The monotheistic ones are born through books, that are supposedly send by an author who is the intelligent creator of earth. This book supposedly contains messages for mankind, people interpret this book and have their own understanding about reality. There are those who deny all of these books and the very idea of there being a deity (atheists), however they don't necesarilly agree with one another and do not support one anothers ideas, behaviors, agendas etc. Then there are people who believe that this book is send by god, however they don't necesarilly agree with one another and do not support ..... etc. either! I believe in the Quran, however disagree with most translations (please don't tell me stuff about him being a pedophil and stuff like that, I oppose all of those ideas, they are born through books that are not the Quran (Bukhari etc.) and I do not believe in them). I support the idea of evolution, I even have physiological and psychological explanations that I've never seen used by anyone else before. My proof explains how the later stages progressed and in what way it influences our sexual desires. I believe that even if you completely oppose an idea, you should be open to those ideas and think about them, give them a chance. And the Quran, my interpretation of it, and let me say that I am fascinated by it, reading it almost everyday now, listening to multiple different analysises etc. My interpretation of it strongly encourages me to further develop myself and keep being open-minded. So please do not say that religious people are like this or like that, for I dislike a majority of their philosophies myself. And doing so is just as ignorant towards the individuals who practice these so called "religions". Of whom you and many others accuse as being ignorant. Sorry for the long response, Peace.
I appreciate your insights from my experience I found religion teaching to be a logical way to guide the new generations. by completely being in a truthful mindset the teachings were developed from stories because that's how it began in our language. as the 7000 years gone by each group began to change it to better suit their moods. lol Santana anyway after studying history of religion, language, war, cultural societies, social and natural and physical science I've found only to be spun. but to my own logical conclusion that is physically we are all energy in motion. as well as consciously. but our creator has guarded us from ever touching our souls unless we use our imagination. so I'd have to say something's definitely going on outside of our limitations and we'll always be spinning each other and ourself trying to find the end all answer and I'm guessing there never will be... lol thanks for listening...
I'd like you to look at some Hindu teachings then! They focus more on how to live life unbound with material attachments and fame. They appreciate things that surround them rather than baffle about who has the best God.
@@7Volkan6 great comment! If you see this, I have a question; are you still a follower of the Quran? Has your religious perspective changed over the past seven years?
Demelza Konoplyanka what is truth ? Is it just statements based on an individuals perception? what is agnostic? Atheist? Are they just labels us humans made up because we have to understand everything??? We’re just the product of billions of years of evolution. Some things we will never understand
@@SamuelBlack84 exactly that 👍 Thats why some people aren’t capable of leaving religion because they need it to comfort them even if it’s all fake promises they need to hear them
In the past century anthropologist have conducted countless studies on the inner working and dynamics of hunter gatherers. They did this by observing newly discovered tribes that remained untouched by modern society . These tribes are found all over the globe, and by using the scientific method and comparing these societies to one another, followed by years of critical debates among fellows scientist, science has painted a pretty neat picture of how hunter gatherers function. These people are remnants of a way of living that used to be ours as well. If you want to know why our paths have split from theirs, the reason why we develloped a more complex society why they didn't, i suggest that you read "guns germs and steel" by Jared Diamond, and the discussions that follow it.
I'm not surprised by the many negative comments here, but this is an excellent video. It is not biased or condescending, it simply reports on how our ancestors thought and operated, based on the available anthropology we have today. Great job!
I think we need compromise and respect here... Truth = Evidence that can be tested and when tested repeatedly gives the same results. God = Love and Unity That is enough to appreciate each other, people...
read almost every holy book ever. the God is always a genocidal, racist, hypocritical, lustful, power hungery. hell he's like a child version of hitler.
Venkata Susarla I haven't read any cover to cover. But I know from people who study holy books about the immoral teachings of those ancient mythological books
So all your knowledge is without even reading anything? Sir It would be wise to read something and then coming to a conclusion on it rather than observing the people.I didn't get what you mean by immoral teachings. To believe in nothing is equally stupid as believing in everything.
can we all just realize that people are going to believe or not believe in what ever they want no matter what you think or say and move on? Coexistence is so much simpler. keeps your blood-pressure down too.
This video just shows that deep in our soul we knows there are "higher power" / creator.... our Soul "remember" it's origin where "the soul" witness our creator before it is sent to this sensory body in this physical world..and the soul WILL go back to our creator after we die... that is why, it's natural when we keep having a "feeling" that there are "higher power" that govern our life... Atheist or Religious, you knows.. within you have some sort of feelings about GOD - THE CREATOR
Faith is the heart of religion. However, there seems to be no explanation to it in Psychology. Its only purpose is to make a person more resilient to the never ending adversities of life.
People are scared of dying I think that's always been a huge motivator for belief That's why so many churchgoers are very old Their time us running out, and the prospect of eternal nothingness terrifies them
Nice video that goes with my personal theory; it was probably a dream of the early cavemen ... there was a superior "being" looking after them. Although these beliefs originated in different parts of the world at an early stage, you can easily imagine that the concept of "religion" was mainly there to calm down anxiety among humans (why are we here, what is the purpose of life on earth, etc.).
So my theory is a prehistoric people's culture person had a dream about their parents or their favorite place, person,thing and made it their whole personality
It made me jump and heart flutter (not uncommon to get insects crawling on my screen at night, but that size was startling). Knew someone would post, took more scrolling than I'd expected.
0:16 literally that's all we need to survive on this planet but we've evolved so much in terms of technology that these things have become more of a commodity rather then a necessity.
You found this information where? Apparently you found it somewhere and who could actually decipher its meanings strange that you could even say that this is where it began or how it began?
This video overall presents interesting arguments but the last conclusion, that religion is an obstacle to progress, does not convince me. Civilization and technological progress began long before people started questioning the supernatural. In fact skepticism and outright atheism probably flourished after such progress enabled it. Religious people don't seem particularly bothered by any new scientific theory as long as it doesn't deny something fundamental to their faith. For instance, Christians and Muslims have a lot of problem with the idea of evolution by natural selection because it does not require the intervention of God. If God even exists at all, then natural selection means that He is not the architect of the human soul and thus is not its rightful shepherd. Sinful behavior is not a consequence of spiritual corruption but an adaptive behavior that evolved to address survival needs, and which thus must be dealt in a pragmatic fashion instead of a dogmatic one. But as long as it doesn't threat a fundamental tenet, religious people exhibit no special distrust of progress. When was the last time the Catholic Church completely outlawed some technology or scientific theory?
Depending on when they stop burning the heretics. If you have no problem for creationist to introduce themselves as Science I am sure your kids will love to study a subject where the conclusion is God did it.
EVEN the catholics are moving toward a more secular position on real world issues. However...they're not so hot on contraception. Or medical technology that facilitates abortion on demand. Or handing over the pedophile priests. Of course family planning is not that popular either amongst the (supposedly) celibate old men who make the rules. Muslims think Pokemon is haram. And chess. And pictures of cats. And women riding bicycles. Just to get a religious balance here. Oh yeah, and scantily dressed women cause earthquakes, nearly forget that gem! No, religion- get rid of it!
I don't know how anyone can prove that religion stabilizes society because almost every society is religious (the irreligious societies in developed countries are an anomaly in the grand course of human history). He'd need to show a large number of examples of societies that gave up religion and crumbled soon after - not just a few anecdotes, but a statistically significant sample that allows us to prove a correlation.
Your speaking from the perspective of modern day society and in modern era the principles and practices of religion have significantly changed, in the dark ages for example, everyone would be born within a certain social class and with certain circumstances were convinced they'd stay that way, the ones who publicly said the wanted to make a change or questioned core beliefs were tortured and executed and this continued for 100s of years, throughout many wars and then some light was shed on the practices of the church for stifling creativity and open thinking in order to keep power, after this ended the european world say a massive and rapid increase in innovation, new technologies, the printing press was invented during that time, and that as you know paved a way for new thinking...If all we did when we didn't understand something was say God made it that way, then we wouldn't learn how stuff works, and how to manipulate it, As time passed by, with every new innovation the church called it the work of the devil or said it was unholy and eventually adopted it and slowly changed there thinking towards certain things, when people first started doing surgeries in christian society they were accused of being witches and put through witch trials and all died, when the first open heart surgery was done, they accused doctors of playing God, protesting against it, but as you know eventually they just said God gave man the wisdom and knowledge to do these things. Christians put many men to death because of open thinking and principles that are common knowledge in today's society
Stone age...def; ' The period lasted roughly 3.4 million years, and ended between 8700 BCE (or BC) and 2000 BCE with the advent of metalworking. : It is not possible to know what these people called themselves since 'writing' has been at its earliest found in china around the 7th millennia BCE. It is an arbitrary 'period'... and 'stone age people' cannot be grouped together as one. It is like dating the use of fire... come on ... this entire video is conjecture claiming to be solidly scientific... i find it laughable when science is used incorrectly to promote a philosophy. Philosophy is not science or scientific thinking. it is the opposite...starts with a conclusion and desperately grovels to find evidence supporting it...
I always loved the idea of spirits being in everything. I think there's a misconception in what is meant by this. Of course the pre-intellectual humans actually believed in these kinds of things, but I think there is some truth to it. Maybe not a literal factual truth but some kind of tangible abstract truth in the mind brought through feeling (even though feelings can be so powerful in convincing us that they are literal, making us fear our intuitive insights - there's still room for interpretation and analysis). The mind can look at things in objective and subjective ways. The objective way is very literal and logical. The subjective way is often mystical, but provides an insight into the true nature of reality. You could say philosophers look at the world this way combining both aspects of their subjective experience and objective analysis and that is what it means to be truly rational. Fantasy is a tool for us to understand reality, as is logic which can prune our fantastical conceptions and theories to find truth. So when they say that objects have spirits, maybe they take that too far, and as you said, separated fantasy from logic. But when you take fantasy and apply it's concepts to logic, you can see a certain reasoning behind it. When you look at a plant, you can feel that it is alive like you. It has some kind of spirit to it that is the sum of it's functions to survive.
@@donaldmjbart-williams3144 Idk people still believe that it's weird to say pre intellectual humans. Maybe he meant humans before the age of enlightenment.
I love this 😂❤ a naturalistic explanation for theism This makes perfect sense Religion evolved from early humans who were ignorant about the world around them
Yathish Dhavala Islam is ever existing religion .truth that God is one is recognised to man from Adam(peace be upon him)from Adam to mohammad saw many messenger come including jesus that God is only one.only worship one god and in what direct method messengers do prayer of Allah follow is Islam quran have all history sciences geography read it for one time in your life and change the life of world and after world in paradise including jesus is messenger and he give messege that God is only one.
and they were scared shitless by the elements and the strong animals they shared the land with ...how else would they come to the conclusion that there must be much more powerful beings
@kudagenit Except, he didn't always, did he? Terrible things still happened, and they justified that as some kind of test or that it was their time etc etc
I believe my religion is the truth because it has many facts which are scientifically proven e.g(creation of man) and many more shocking things. People say Islam is not a true religion than explain THIS!!! **I don't want any hate comments**
The Sun-God HORUS was Worshipped Nearly 1,000 Years Before the “STORY” of Jesus. Check these Parallels: 1.Both were conceived of a virgin. 2.Both were the "only begotten son" of a god (either Osiris or Yahweh) 3.Horus's mother was Meri, Jesus's mother was Mary. 4.Horus's foster father was called Jo-Seph, and Jesus's foster father was Joseph. 5.Both foster fathers were of royal descent. 6.Both were born in a cave (although sometimes Jesus is said to have been born in a stable). 7.Both had their coming announced to their mother by an angel. Horus; birth was heralded by the star Sirius (the morning star). Jesus had his birth heralded by a star in the East (the sun rises in the East). 8.Ancient Egyptians celebrated the birth of Horus on December 21 (the Winter Solstice). Modern Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus on December 25. 9.Both births were announced by angels (this si nto the same as number 7). 10.Both had shepherds witnessing the birth. 11.Horus was visited at birth by "three solar deities" and Jesus was visited by "three wise men". 12.After the birth of Horus, Herut tried to have Horus murdered. After the birth of Jesus, Herod tried to have Jesus murdered. 13.To hide from Herut, the god That tells Isis, "Come, thou goddess Isis, hide thyself with thy child." To hide from Herod, an angel tells Joseph to "arise and take the young child and his mother and flee into Egypt." 14.When Horus came of age, he had a special ritual where hsi eye was restored. When Jesus (and other Jews) come of age, they have a special ritual called a Bar Mitzvah. 15.Both Horus and Jesus were 12 at this coming-of-age ritual. Neither have any official recorded life histories between the ages of 12 and 30. 16.Horus was baptized in the river Eridanus. Jesus was baptized in the river Jordan. 17.Both were baptized at age 30. 18.Horus was baptized by Anup the Baptizer. Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist. 19.Both Anup and John were later beheaded. 20.Horus was taken from the desert of Amenta up a high mountain to be tempted by his arch-rival Set. Jesus was taken from the desert in Palestine up a high mountain to be tempted by his arch-rival Satan. 21.Both Horus and Jesus successfully resist this temptation. 22.Both have 12 disciples. 23.Both walked on water, cast out demons, healed the sick, and restored sight to the blind. 24.Horus "stilled the sea by his power." Jesus commanded the sea to be still by saying, "Peace, be still." 25.Horus raised his dead father (Osiris) from the grave. Jesus raised Lazarus from the grave. (Note the similarity in names when you say them out loud. Further, Osiris was also known as Asar, which is El-Asar in Hebrew, which is El-Asarus in Latin.) 26.Osiris was raised in the town of Anu. Lazarus was raised in Bethanu (literally, "house of Anu"). 27.Both gods delivered a Sermon on the Mount. 28.Both were crucified. 29.Both were crucified next to two thieves. 30.Both were buried in a tomb. 31.Horus was sent to Hell and resurrected in 3 days. Jesus was sent to Hell and came back "three days" later (although Friday night to Sunday morning is hardly three days). 32.Both had their resurrection announced by women. 33.Both are supposed to return for a 1000-year reign. 34.Horus is known as KRST, the anointed one. Jesus was known as the Christ (which means "anointed one"). 35.Both Jesus and Horus have been called the good shepherd, the lamb of God, the bread of life, the son of man, the Word, the fisher, and the winnower. 36.Both are associated with the zodiac sign of Pisces (the fish). 37.Both are associated with the symbols of the fish, the beetle, the vine, and the shepherd's crook. 38.Horus was born in Anu ("the place of bread") and Jesus was born in Bethlehem ("the house of bread"). 39."The infant Horus was carried out of Egypt to escape the wrath of Typhon. The infant Jesus was carried into Egypt to escape the wrath of Herod. Concerning the infant Jesus, the New Testament states the following prophecy: 'Out of Egypt have I called my son.'" 40.Both were transfigured on the mount. 41.The catacombs of Rome have pictures of the infant Horus being held by his mother, not unlike the modern-day images of "Madonna and Child." Noted English author C. W. King says that both Isis and Mary are called "Immaculate". 42.Horus says: "Osiris, I am your son, come to glorify your soul, and to give you even more power." And Jesus says: "Now is the Son of Man glorified and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God will glorify the Son in himself, and will glorify him at once." Horus was identified with the Tau (cross).
Amazing compendium! The word of the day is "syncretism," that is each new religion was morphed from the old religion(s), so the new one takes bits and pieces from the old, and adds the new. For instance, monotheistic Judaism developed from polytheistic pagan tribes of the Levant. Catholicism morphed from Judaism. Islam took from both Judaism and Christianity. There are multiple stories of virgin births, divinities, and resurrections from other cults/religions, etc. Stories.
Atheism came into existence in 18ty Century Lmao and Atheism did not Fking exists a Million or a billion years ago Animals another organism and Biological Beings are Not Atheists they don't even know this even exists
Humans always choosed the best for their progress, Religion gave them the best supoort ever, without religions human evolution would not have attained such fast evolutions, In the name of god you can organise a mass of people, make them work together, control them, fortyfy them for great wars, bring rules etc. Religion was the most powerfull tool of the last era :) now with mondialisation it has become a big mess :) Religions = Old great (broken) tools
Prashanth Thiaga Yes I totally agree with you. I feel Religion oppresses people pretty well today as well, u only have to look at the U.S. to see that!
Looking in retrospect, how religion hindered human progress, it is likely modern society would have appeared much sooner. Sure some aspects of religion were quintessential in our progress, but most of them could have been accommodated under other umbrellas (like philosophy) without the religious baggage..
This is rather elitist. He basically concludes by saying that religion halts social progress, which really isn't borne out by the evidence. There is some good material in the video but it is very biased towards a certain perspective and comes to an incorrect conclusion. But then again, you can't really discuss the origin of religion in a 4 minute youtube video.
He says culture inhibits those who could otherwise be the next Isaac Newton or Einstein. Culture is much more than just religion. For example; idealizing singers, poets, actors, etc. can leave you satisfied, and as you live vicariously through the works of others you abstain from challenging the obstacles of today. The "work a day" culture limits creative work trading it in for hourly jobs that drain your energy and desire to do anything challenging. It is much more than just religion but I recognize that religion has always tried to place limits and rules upon everything, so even if there is some bias, I think we're moving in the right direction.
I agree that our current capitalist culture limits creative work - but our religion is that of materialism. I don't see this current system as moving in the right direction at all. In fact, we are moving toward our impending doom. We can scoff at religious impulses and mythologies but the fact is that we are encased in a mythology (in the US) of "freedom", "justice", and "equality" while many are blind or indifferent toward the massive levels of poverty, wage slavery, and environmental destruction that are occurring. I mean, the Western scientific reductionist approach to life may be a better model that our proto-religious ancestors, but it is still incomplete and at times lacking in morality. Society would be better off today without nuclear weapons. That being said, I despise the modern versions of the classical monotheistic religions. So you are definitely correct in the original point that our culture is the problem. Sorry for ranting, hope that made sense.
"He basically concludes by saying that religion halts social progress, which really isn't borne out by the evidence." Then perhaps you could provide that evidence. Like how religion promotes the acceptence of homosexuality.
Hey, thanks for asking this. Sorry my statement was a bit broad. I think that problems arise when we make broad statements such as "religion halts social progress" (or that it doesn't). When we say religion we are really referring to a bunch of different cultural traditions. So for example, fundamentalist right wing Christianity in the US halts social progress, I'll give you that one (and the same can be said for fundamentalist Islam in the Middle East). However, the social gospel movement in the 1960's was led by black church leaders such as MLK jr. This movement actually resulted in a lot of social progress and had it's roots and support within black churches. Now this brings up the point that all events in history have multiple causes and effects and cannot be simply explained with neat little words like religion, ideology, or nationalism (though all three can play important roles and the dividing line between them isn't very clear). So if we are trying to measure the effect of "religion" (a term that is meaningless outside of context) on "social progress" (another meaningless term outside of context), then we're going to have a bad time. We need to avoid generalizations and instead examine how and why religious structures, beliefs and practices arose in particular societies at particular times, and what were the repercussions of those practices/ modes of thought. Usually we will find a mixed bag, because in the end we are dealing with the actions of individuals - who are complex - and not the straight religion or ideology itself. If Osama bin Laden had happened to be an atheist, would he still had become a terrorist?There's no way to tell for sure, but I can easily see him having used a sort of pseudo-Marxist ideology or a violent nationalism to justify his actions (and in fact, he likely did, as well as Islam). Even fundamentalist right-wing Christianity needs to be understood in terms of its history in the US, the Enlightenment and its thought structures, as well as Western capitalism.
Once i was a kid and i was in the 3-4th class i got influenced horribly by the negativity from my class and from that i beaten a girl that was annoying but then i apologized for that, and she forgiven me, so does that mean that i go to hell? I prayed to god to forgive all of my mistakes, and anyway thats all
This is very limited... Not a word about the most important aspects of religion, control of social relationships, confort and meaning facing the inevitability of death, and set the symbolic bases and structure of moral parametters. The antireligion posture often unable the posibility of learning more about the complexitys of human beings and their myths. In a way, humanity it self has started with religion, wich doesnt mean we need to be creationists today! The need for god to explain the origin of universe and the way nature works no longer exists, but the need for god to give meaning to their existence is a right people have, specially nowadays. The faith is a human dimension. Industrialized countries have such faith in capitalism that they cant see or dont care about polluting the planet to a point there will be not return.
Religion and morals? Tell that to the muslims throwing homosexuals off of roofs or the African Christians mutilating children because they believe they're sorcerers. Tell that to the many Bible verses advocating slavery, discrimination, murder and sexism. Tell that to the indoctrinated children and folks whose lives are ruined by religion and it's oppressive, controlling doctrines. Fuck off mate, the bad aspects of religions outweigh the good ones by a far bit.
Cavemen: wished i could eat this meat in a different form besides raw a lightning bolt from a storm stricking a piece of wood next to him* Cavemen: There must be someone of higher power bc of this! - the first religion.
Except that Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta for example, are nothing like as the video depicts. A famous enlightened sage of the 20th century spoke to his disciple: "'I am' is an ever present fact, while 'I am created' is an idea. Neither God nor the universe have come to tell you that they have created you. The mind, obsessed by the idea of causality, invents creation and then wonders 'who is the creator?' The mind itself is the creator. Even this is not quite true, for the created and its creator are one. The mind and the world are not separate. Do understand that what you think to be the world is your own mind. All space and time are in the mind. (502)"
+Phanteus The real thing actually is Theistic Religions(bad) and Agnostic/Atheistic(beneficial/good) religion. Buddhism is more in the atheism/agnostic.
assuming the "mind" exists. if it did space and time would still not be in there. he didn't want to generalize all religions in one take btw. but the idea stays the same, stupid peoples try to handle the world in a simple and acceptable way. others follow the best one.(rinse repeat).
De Potter M. That applies to science and philosophy as well, anything that we globally take to be true and believe in. What differentiates them from religion is, reasoning.
Phanteus science and math isn't ours lol. 1+1=2 everywhere, anytime, any life form could find that. and it build from there. science IS reality, so it couldn't be altered if you look well enough. I don't have to believe 1+1=2 but it's true either way. water and sodium(natrium) will always do the same thing. ect.ect. religion on earth already has evolved separate (multiple times) on it's own while map makers and biologists sometime even share there discoveries. because they found it separate of each other.
De Potter M. Yes, you've just proven what I've said earlier. Science and math has reasoning, as a result we believe in them globally. They are our ways of explaining the world, and most people agree with it. However, it hasn't explained everything, and can not. Religion is not based on reasoning, so its more like blind belief. Certain Eastern Philosophy is bit different at "its core". It resembles bit more of Rene Descartes teachings at times like "I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am", which is also undeniably true.
Same purpose, different time. People's minds invented religion to fill in the blanks, only back then it was smaller, now common sense questions. Religion really does hold people and societies back form progress and equality, and it's very sad when people give their lives for a religion which is easily found false if you keep asking the question: why?
@@GVSHvids not in some facets of morality. Take killing someone. You can answer that that’s morally wrong. It’s not a societal construct that it’s bad to murder. It’s forcefully stopping someone from existing which is unarguable.
@@GVSHvids It's not a belief. It's like the law of non contradiction, it's just a universal law. Killing someone is not good because you're forcibly removing them from existence when they don't want you to.
I totally agree with you. Religions began hundreds of thousands of years ago, they experienced an exploding mountain, and believed the great creature inside the mountain was angry and that was why the mountain exploded. They believed that they would need to placate this great creature by offering food and other precious things to stop the mountain from.exploding. These rituals became religions, and the great creature evolved to the Roman god Vulcan, and this god lent its name to these exploding mountains - Volcanoes.
religion maybe right or maybe wrong. But I choose to believe its wrong, and even if its right I dont want to worship a (or several) narcissistic assholes who punish you for not giving them attention, or doing things their way.
I think we have free will. The ability to reason would make no sense if we had no free will. When we reason with ourselves we're thinking about the consequences of an action and if we will take that action or not. If whatever we choose is already written, then we shouldn't be able to think about the consequences of that action. Because why would we need to think about the consequences if we literally could not do anything else? The only way our ability to reason makes sense is that its our tool to take the best course with our free will.
rident Thanks for this prompt... love this! I would say we definitely have free will, but with some limitations, mostly due to lack of awareness (look at the Ash Line Experiment) and then some of our lack of awareness is actually necessary for the mind to function. I came to this "free will" conclusion after studying some of what is known or theorized about in psychology. But, then you hear stories about people who tried like heck to "escape their destiny" only to find it followed them. Wayne Dyer (if I remember correctly) told the story of a guy who wanted to live where it was least likely that war would break out. After much research in deliberation, he moved to the Falkland Islands and then there was a little war that happened there in the 80's shortly after he moved there. Although, I think what the guy really did was spend so much time thinking about what he did not want that he manifested it. My understanding is that the law of attraction does not understand the difference between what you don't want and what you do want. It only manifests whatever you are spending a lot of emotional energy on thinking about. So some people might interpret that story of the Falkland island dude as living his destiny, but I interpret this as the law of attraction in action and he got what he put his energy on. We are all free to focus our minds on what we want, so therefore we have free will and the whole destiny idea is out the door as far as I'm concerned.
Maybe follow the truth then if you don't want to be punished, such a hypocrite saying you don't want to follow God's rules then have the audacity to say "why would God punish me"? The truth is right before your eyes so don't you dare act innocent
I was brought up a Catholic, I went to Catholic school and church every Sunday. I remember all of a sudden becoming ‘lucid’ during a mass one time and thinking this is all so strange as I listened to 150 strangers chanting verses in unison towards a man in a white robe. The words used were quite unsettling when you actually stopped and listened and didn’t just chant along with the rest of the congregation. I now look at it all in disbelief that so many people can’t see that it’s all quite obviously based on myth and legend. Myths often start life as true stories but as everyone knows the more you tell a story and pass it from person to person the more details get added and you can see how feeding the 50 can quickly turns into feeding the 5000. In a time of lawlessness and lack of scientific explanation I can see how religion filled that gap but now religion in general seems so outdated in a world that can be explained by science. That being said there are still huge questions that remain unanswered and religion may offer some comfort in explaining those things, but I’d find it tough to believe one part of the story when so much else is questionable. Would the world be a better place without religion? Maybe Would fewer wars have been fought? Probably Would we all still be killing each other anyway? Yes If everyone could understand the true meaning of life and stop looking at the differences between us all and instead focus on how we can make a net positive difference in our short time here then what a world it would be.
Light Yagami Muslims don’t roll around and in cow manure and they in those 1400 years they built the most legendary history of religious conquest in the world
@@Sea-zu4bj Found the proud islamic superior religion bullshitter. Always in a dick measuring contest with other religions. The most fragile and violent religion in the world. Literally killed so many people from other religions and more in his own and yet have the audacity to say, he is the best haha. You treat women like second class citizens and deprive them of rights. Smh and be racist to people on top. Get a grip, your religion is a fake story like all others, that too a bad one
It will make little to no difference in the long run since nonreligious have less kids and most brainwashed kids never grow out of their parents religion. Most believe that garbage even as elderly people on their deathbeds.
I prefer we could have live in that past... Cz by advancing we just got divided, lost our peaceful and crime rates are increased no humanity...even old holding the religion they had humanity, low rates crime and peaceful life..
There was a lot of horrible things happening in the name of God back then.... crusades, witch burnings, ethnic cleansing, human sacrifice, and 99% of wars were fought in the name of one God or another. The only time humans had a peaceful existence was probably when we were just hunter gatherer tribes pre religion.
People are very firm on their personal beliefs and if someone is wrong about them, they're more than likely going to point it out for future reference. It'd be like if I said black people are less of a person than a white guy, there's no visible meter of how much the black guy is of a person but you would still correct them. The same is for religion fyi, I don't have a problem with neither black or white people.
+Ruslan Kardashev Replace religion with philosophy, because really, that's all it is. Everyone has their own philosophy, containing elements about history and the people who lived in this world. Some people's philosophies contain a intelligent creator (god) others don't. Which leads into them being correct when they say that this isn't what their religion is about, everyone's religion is individual, even if they worship the same name, building or whatever. Religion is individual, so is atheism The way that we construct our understanding of reality is individual as well. Peace.
volkan religion is a false philosophy with false comfort and promises. It makes people not strive for something good, it makes people greedy, selfish, because followers do good only to end up in paradise and not for the sake of doing good things. It stupefies, numbs mind.
+Ruslan Kardashev So than whats your answer to the historical evidence of clearly secular/atheistic leaders who have exploited and done great harm to people? Say what you will, the high death toll in the last century was not caused by religion.
DarkArtistKaiser the fact that it was not caused by religion doesn't mean it was caused by atheists. I mean one group of people didn't kill other group of people proving god doesn't exist. Your argument is puny, to say the least.
And to think that by now in "modern" day society people would realize the inauthenticity of religion and all that it entails. But even thousands of years later I guess we as a people haven't evolved enough to understand that the idea of a god and religion, although comforting to some, is foolish and lacks any concrete proof of there being a deity that created all of this.
Or maybe you've just gone ahead of yourself, overestimating humanity's capabilities without thinking of why you're even here, why life is so mysteriously unexplained, why the earth is so precisely situated, or why everything in the universe (and possibly even technology) is so precise down to the last subatomic particle. Just because they were wrong in some aspects doesn't mean they were all wrong.
Excellent vid! Understand religious people, don´t condemn them! Anybody can understand that god does´t exist some however have a hard time accepting it.
Thanks for sharing this man! I nowdays see people in my country getting crazy behind religion and forcing and killing others for sake of religion.. It just pains me when they can't accept reality and continue to live in a fantasy.
Hey there shitty atheist,who created humans,who created the planets,stars,the sun and moon,who created animals and every living creature on earth,who created water/rivers?
@@lonely_meistersinger2794 But still laws of physics and everything you said would need some creater. They could not have been form of their own. And by the way, For you what is the purpose of life ?
@@Sara-gl2mg laws of physics purely based on math, and math based on abstract logic. And abstract logic don't have or need any creator. Because saying that 1+1=2 is created by some supernatural creature is absurd.
The only reason god exists for people is in places they are too uneducated to explain. For Example: "I dunno how x got here, therefore god did it". This is not an answer. Lol, religion just pretends to give an answer. Science is what actually gives answers. If one is religious, then he/she willfully ignores the relevance of "Evidence". I don't do that cause I'm not stupid :) The only thing which separates: Knowledge and Information Facts and Claims Reality and Fiction Reason and Beliefs Wanting something to be true and something that is true Atheists and Theists Science and Religion is "EVIDENCE". Evidence is how we determine what is true and what is bullshit. :) This isn't some rule I made up. This is just how LOGIC works. Something religious people don't ever seem to understand.
I Love how religious people hound the non religious for evidence but won't provide any themselves when they are the ones trying to force their made up story on everyone else
A fellow human to say that you’re right would mean that everyone else, even those before you, is wrong, and you all can’t be right, but you all can be wrong.
Religion gives simple answers to complex questions to satisfy the stupid and intellectually lazy who want an easy answer to everything. And a lot of times the easy answers religion provides don't even make sense. The answers Christians often give give me a headache.
Both of them are great powers in my opinion. Why isn't it possible that science and religion work in a same objective : To understand and improve life, even if they are using different methods and have different belief? The "short-comings" or "truth" in science. The "all-mighty" or "lies" in religion. People tend to focus solely on one side, and we lose our sight on the bigger picture, the world itself and ourselves.. I believe these 2 works together in life, just like how a coin have 2 sides. Utilizing the YinYang saying, losing any one of them will crumble the whole picture. Just wanted to say do not let this separate us, human beings as a whole. Just my 2 cents, pardon my english.
When you remove lies from religion, what you'll get is rationality, logic reason which contradict religion. Religion and science are like oil and water
Religion cannot work on understanding or improving anything. It's better we leave it behind. It has slowed us down in all aspects. Today there could be a lot more harmony and prosperity if it was not for the idea of God and religion. Science and faith contradict each other. They cannot co-exist without either of them becoming non-existent
Sadly, its due to ones strong cultural belief they will still ignore the truth, even if it came up to them with a cane and slapped them dead in the face, they would still get up and ignore it.
+ChsSami Some of it can be accurate. Many experiments have been done that show that when people who are told, for example, that a sweater belonged to a person who was well-regarded, say Einstein, they are willing to touch and wear it but that when you tell them the sweater really belonged to Ted Bundy, a well known serial killer, you get a lot of "No, thanks; I'm good." Does anybody think, intellectually, that a sweater carries the properties of the person who once wore it? That the good, the smart, or the evil can rub off on you if you wear it? People instinctively recoil at the very sight of something worn by an evil person. It seems something ingrained in our very nature. Therefore, it's not completely unreasonable to speculate how ancient people might have thought that eating parts of dead people gave them their properties. That experiment, and the fact that some so-called _primitive_ tribes have practiced cannibalism in this fashion in historic times, and the fact that we have evidence of cannibalism from the paleolithic, all lead to these kinds of conclusions. In short, they're not just pulling all of these ideas out of their asses.
May God’s peace, mercy, and blessing be upon you, my beloved reader 😊. I am inviting you to worship our creator and check the evidence of his existence. I am just helping you to enter the heaven by worshiping the one who created you that deserves to be worshiped. Our creator has put scientific, linguistic, metaphysical, and historical miracles in his book( the Holy Quran) that has sent down more than 1400 years ago to make people certain that this book is from a mighty powerful God. our God has put a challenge for all non-believers to make one chapter like the Quran which has 114 chapters with its perfection, arrangement, metaphysical miracles, eloquence, splendor, wise legislation, true information, true prophecy, beauty, scientific miracles, and other thousands of miracles. along with history, all the attempts have failed. Also, he almighty put The scientific miracles that includes The chemical composition of the human ( the clay ), the expansion of the universe, the knocking star, the origin of the universe, the orbits, the movements of the sun and the earth, the rotation of the earth, the stage of development of the only type of clouds that produce hail, the mountain as pegs, the vision in the deep seas, the variation of the amount of the air along the sky, the front of the head function, the chronological comparisons of developments of the fetus ( the bones, the body, the hearing, and the vision), the stage of the developments of the zygote, the only pain receptors, the factor that determines gender ( the sperm ), the secretion of the digestive fluid in the fly, the fertilizing winds, the mechanism of secretion of the milk, and the forbidden type of breeding ( between relatives ). You check them to be persuaded. Also, You can study the other miracles. But before doing anything, raise your hand asking your creator to help you, to guide your heart to the right path, to forgive you, to enter you the heaven, and to save you from the fire. I hope you do what I asked for and accept Islam. Thanks❤️
And then leaders discovered that they can control other people with religion. Nothing was more effective and powerful to make people do what the leaders wanted than saying "God told me that you should do that". So religion grew big and organised.
+Jeong-hun Sin I know right! Not it's just time to find this secret formula that's going to make their empire collapse in their own disgust they created for greed and what ever (if bad).
Well that didn't make the first christians more powerful against jewish leaders and Rome.
+Jeong-hun Sin
And than it was banned by leaders and replaced it with personality cults and nationalism which was in a sense a cult to the nation state. And while one could not prove the existence of god or gods, its hard to argue against the idea of a nation state.
And than we learned religion isn't the only tool of control.
+DarkArtistKaiser , Fear is at the base of both the nation state and religion.
Then someone discovered that people would give money to earn their way into the mythical heaven, and religion solidified its hold.
Faith never give you answers, it makes you stop questioning
faith give a positive feeling to humans no matter what do you believe in
and because of their feelings they think they doing right or wrong
but the question humans have to ask them selves is how do i know that ideas or thoughts makes me feel good and comfortable are
correct in reality.
@@angryyoungman66 No, people need to understand that right and wrong are concepts created by humans. There are no morals, because morals are all concepts created by humans. The Universe has no morals, there's no right or wrong. But if we're living in a civilized society, I know not to kill someone because that's a social norm not because God told me not to.
@@ryderwashington4199
any way we agree that we humans based on our point of view to world we created the morals the good and bad meanings it didn't came from God or something else.
But I faith in questioning
True...
The way I see it, religion started to try to explain what people couldn't yet answer. Why did the sun rise and set? Why does it rain? Why do we die?
Today religion is still used to try to answer the questions we can't answer. Why are we here? What's our purpose in this world? What happens after death?
+Collin “Ser Buckman” Buckman true... i'm a Christian
Lynard Ramos Same here
+Collin “Ser Buckman” Buckman That's a good way of thinking however RELIGION (some/most) try to overwrite answeres we have already found for the sake of valadity of their religion. What a joke.. :(
Collin Buckman
I agree but as science has progressed the god of the gaps has gotten smaller and smaller and maybe one day there will be no gap.
Still doesn't make it right. If you ask a scientist something that's not answered by science yet would you rather he answered "don't know" and give plausible possibilities instead or he makes up some answer that's not based on reality at all? I prefer the first. It's not wise to make up an answer it's much better if you're just honest. Just say "I don't know" when you don't know. Unfortunately the majority of people don't work like this they'd rather be fed sweet lies.
You forgot the part where the caveman ate magic mushrooms and saw some funky magic shit while tripping out and thought he discovered the gods.
Monkeys get high and elephants i forget the name of the leafs
The fact Earth gives us shrooms is enough to make me believe the Earth is God, mother nature.
@@PhylumVertebrae Thank You
Exactly
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As an athiest I can definitely respect the origin of religion and at a time where we simply could not prove one way or another; their stories answered their questions, gave them hope, even answering things that we will never know (namely death). However we have grown up significantly and everyone should question their beliefs, their origins and see if you discover that what you have always believed doesn't quite fit, make sense or seems very out-dated.
What do you believe?
But believing everything comes from nothing is pure stupidity.
A lot of the bible is proven fact , and Jesus did exist , as did all his Disciples ,
@@abubkrshyk thats true but like I haven't seen anyone believe something came out from nothing, if you're talking about the big bang no scientist ever said the big bang comes from nothing they are literally dont know and also I can also say God came from nothing and the universe is eternal and has always existed
As an atheist you should probably question your own belief that the universe popped into existence out of nothing with no first cause.
Who else tried to wipe the smudge off their screen
Bored Troll lmao.
hahaha me too
Me
oh my fukk!!! bastards.. made me believe in the almighty smudge
haha I thought i was the only one :D
"The imagination of those who had biological potential for genius and those of 'normal' intelligence were limited by their culture"
I see that a lot within that which you call "modern society".
Culture is also what provided you internet to comment this sort of bs.
@@gama9980 Hello to you too!
So true Enrique. The ones who proved themselves more adept at doing things, coming up with better strategies for the hunt or what have, keener senses that the others came to trust and rely on more, etc. Those more gifted than the average at this stage were most likely able to demonstrate their elevated skills and intelligence and have such be more readily accepted than is the case in modern times. I just don’t buy that they were more stymied. And the anthropological evidence exists to show a steady rate of invention/innovation which compounds due to past achievements, faster and faster as is still the case today, even though spiritual/religious beliefs, no less fantastical than the earliest primitive humans held mind you, persist.
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It's so refreshing to see a video where the subtitles not only match the audio, but are also correctly punctuated. Great job!
To every religious soul out there:
BIBLE (KJV)
John 10:1
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Lies.....the flying spaghetti monster created the first man out of mozzarella sticks and meatballs and the first woman out of garlic bread as it is written in noodles in the Book of Pastafarianism.
Haha 100% correct Bro ;)
I could dig into that religion.
+imvexus Forget digging in for just 25 USD you can be a bishop. 😁www.venganza.org/ordination/
momiaw I am already ordained, and I did mine for free....Praise be on to the FSM.
Spaghetti Monster (P.B.U.H)
I'm going to eat now. The stomach gods are angry!
You are a foolish person
@@sonofdeath7818 r/whoosh
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@@sonofdeath7818 Ok Karen
You mean, "hangry". Them gods are never satisfied.🤣😂
Really, really cool to think about. Personally, I love learning about how things got started - language, writing, religion, humanity, life itself, even the Universe (and what'll happen to it). I prefer bases of observation of the world around us over religious ones, though I can see how easy and convenient it is to chose religion - it's something that generations before you has gone with and you don't want to disappoint them, and it's generally less of a strain on the mind than atheism, enabling you to get on with the rest of your life.
look at the humanist movement from the renaissance.
Very good. keep learning and keep thinking
I find the gods of the ancients to be far more interesting than today's gods.
Both perhaps but I would prefer the earlier gods
What if God was all and nothing, creator and destroyer, you and me, every blade of grass, every inch of space, an entirely different realm that affects all the rest, is everyone of them gods mentioned in ancient history aswell as the gods of religions today and those yet to be thought of. It knows the future yet doesn't correct it. For it nothing is wrong as it all happens for a reason, that callousness and vileness had its place in it only to cause the goodness and wonders of the worlds and all life is one small part of it.
Cos that's as far as I can see of God but I believe it's there
@Lina Morgana the indus valley Civilisation
@@rodneyquinn2528 welcome to omnism my friend ✝️☪️🕉☸️✡️☯️
Because you do not know the one true God. If you truly did, you would not even care about the others.
2:33 "Their view of the world came to them with invented stories. These were stories that were told and accepted without recognition of a difference between fact and fantasy."
A pretty good description of UA-cam cartoons about the paleolithic, each with a different twist.
Religion is a supernatural belief while ignoring reality
I'm confused. How do you propose to know what cave men told stories about? By looking at their cave paintings? But that could be about anything. I'm confused about your evidence for know what those people thought at all.
+Whynter Knox It's not entirely based on evidence, it's just a rational perspective.
+Whynter Knox
Looking at the evolution of religion
+Kim Petersen Yes, but as they didn't have a rational perspective how can we know what their perspective was?
I'm sure a comparison of various hunter gatherer peoples is useful but hardly conclusive. Natives of Australia, Papa New Guinea and the Americas had such varied beliefs and even where these people did paint on rocks we are still talking about a people separated by thousands of miles and years with again different beliefs and reasoning.
+jonstfrancis Read the book Guns, Germs and Steel, that will answer that.
This video was not meant to be a portrayal of an actual historical event. It's more of a story that gives you an idea of where religion comes from. No one says this has to be taken literally.
Gryffix well God isn’t real
Joseph G
Prove it :)
Peter Salucci Heard of the problem of evil?
Joseph Hapbridge
Yes it’s called sin :)
Peter Salucci XD so natural disasters and disease are caused by sin?
I did really like the video, but I think you should make a part 2. Modern Religion should definitely be covered as well, since it is the most influential
What the hell is Modern Religion?
@@donaldmjbart-williams3144 Religions that come with huge amount of Theology with holy scriptures and so on like Christianity and Islam
@@eliassius6945 yeah but modern would be saying it rose today. Christianity and all other major religions are old asf
@@beepboop8484 i mean when you compare a religion from 2k years ago to religions from 10s of thousands of years ago, they don't sound that old.
for example the time between the building of the pyramids and Cleopatra is more than the time between us and Jesus
@@donaldmjbart-williams3144 Wokeism is a modern religion gaining a fast and devout following, it even attempted an inquisition in Qatar but most people were just interested in watching some Football. You could also call LDS, scientology and many other modern.
To sum it all up, there's just so much power drawn to the unknown. Be it fear or excitement, or skepticism, or just the joy of discovery, the unknown(or the unproven, as I might prefer) shakes us all to our core. The inevitable ends. The undeniable conclusions. Oh, such is life.
My first educational video!!!
What a limited view and disrespect of the the world, our history and any religion. This video is nothing but subjective and has simply no research value.
***** How is he wrong? Study anthropology, physiology, and biology if you want to understand what makes man tick. Seems only disrespectful if you hold an absolute truth that is unquestionable and not open to new information. I'm guessing you have a favorite holy book.
77macgruber the last two lines are very telling.
He's basically saying "stupid cavemen couldn't do anything right"
But if you look at the evolution of society from hunter gatherers we see all the elements of agriculture developed and used long before agriculture and then they are all brought together to form an agriculture society.
Comparing that to other societies around the world. We discover that the lack of progress is simply an energy efficiency problem.
We see the societies that had grains, which could be planted while running around naked spreading seeds while being chased by another person in a costume would still grow. Societies that had labor intensive plants that didn't give as much back just couldn't provide as much for their society and thus more energy was expended finding food than doing other things.
It's incredibly disrespectful of the people in ancient times and how they progressed and had a huge modern day reinterpatation. There was no effort in putting on the time goggles.
It's a very basic, practical video with some obvious errors. While yes, 'biological geniuses' may have been stunted by culture (was this your attempt at connecting to the modern day world?) I must remind you that the creation of religion was also the first science. Without these primitive beings looking up at the sky and asking themselves what made the sun move across the sky, we would never have been able to come as far as we have. So I'd say that religion is the product of the biological geniuses, who, although limited by environment, still asked 'Why does this work?'.
Skinnymarks "the last two lines are very telling.
He's basically saying "stupid cavemen couldn't do anything right" "
That was the only part of the video I didn't like. It felt like an assertion based on no real evidence; just a prejudiced view of primitive, animistic societies as inherently inferior and incapable of real thought or progress, with no consideration about the inherent limitations primitive societies would have had in that era, when people had to struggle every day just to survive and didn't have the privilege of simply going to the super market for food and all the cushy technical advancements that we have today.
Honestly, not believing in a religion has made me more "spiritual." People need to stop being so afraid of this video, and become more conscious beings with a better understanding of the environment they live in. From where religion came from, to why we perceive things the way we do by understanding our biological functions, the understanding of what composes reality itself. Period. that's all you need to know, and there's TONS AND TONS of information out there people just ignore, and are afraid of because they feel frightened it will hurt their beliefs.
Embrace the enigma we call life, and realize the truth lies within us all. stop being blinded by culture and religion.
+XcccVcccX
I embrace the idea of being open to new ideas. However I don't understand why people talk about "a" religion. I honestly believe that religion is nothing more than just a word in order to discriminate people in categories: people who believe in an intelligent creator and people who don't.
You can't just give a criteria (for example: simplifying reality in order to understand it) to those categories (in this case, those who believe in a deity are simplifying reality; that is, according to this video and your comment). Doing so, in and of itself is simplifying reality so that one can understand it. In order words, you are doing the very same thing that you accuse others of.
There is no "a" religion, religion is nothing more than a philosophy.
The monotheistic ones are born through books, that are supposedly send by an author who is the intelligent creator of earth. This book supposedly contains messages for mankind, people interpret this book and have their own understanding about reality.
There are those who deny all of these books and the very idea of there being a deity (atheists), however they don't necesarilly agree with one another and do not support one anothers ideas, behaviors, agendas etc.
Then there are people who believe that this book is send by god, however they don't necesarilly agree with one another and do not support ..... etc. either!
I believe in the Quran, however disagree with most translations (please don't tell me stuff about him being a pedophil and stuff like that, I oppose all of those ideas, they are born through books that are not the Quran (Bukhari etc.) and I do not believe in them).
I support the idea of evolution, I even have physiological and psychological explanations that I've never seen used by anyone else before. My proof explains how the later stages progressed and in what way it influences our sexual desires. I believe that even if you completely oppose an idea, you should be open to those ideas and think about them, give them a chance. And the Quran, my interpretation of it, and let me say that I am fascinated by it, reading it almost everyday now, listening to multiple different analysises etc. My interpretation of it strongly encourages me to further develop myself and keep being open-minded.
So please do not say that religious people are like this or like that, for I dislike a majority of their philosophies myself.
And doing so is just as ignorant towards the individuals who practice these so called "religions". Of whom you and many others accuse as being ignorant.
Sorry for the long response, Peace.
I appreciate your insights from my experience I found religion teaching to be a logical way to guide the new generations. by completely being in a truthful mindset the teachings were developed from stories because that's how it began in our language. as the 7000 years gone by each group began to change it to better suit their moods. lol Santana
anyway after studying history of religion, language, war, cultural societies, social and natural and physical science I've found only to be spun. but to my own logical conclusion that is physically we are all energy in motion. as well as consciously. but our creator has guarded us from ever touching our souls unless we use our imagination. so I'd have to say something's definitely going on outside of our limitations and we'll always be spinning each other and ourself trying to find the end all answer and I'm guessing there never will be... lol thanks for listening...
die This video is both demeaning religion and spirituality, my dude.
Surprised you aren’t offended.
I'd like you to look at some Hindu teachings then! They focus more on how to live life unbound with material attachments and fame. They appreciate things that surround them rather than baffle about who has the best God.
@@7Volkan6 great comment! If you see this, I have a question; are you still a follower of the Quran? Has your religious perspective changed over the past seven years?
And people are still fighting over whose fiction is real or more superior, while none of it is
*SUPER-FACEPALM*
can I just ask a sincere question, what do you think the truth is in this world. I'm genuinely asking
@@demelzakonoplyanka8550 can you be a little more specific?
@@AdeshAtole in terms of religion. For example , atheist, agnostic etc.
Demelza Konoplyanka what is truth ? Is it just statements based on an individuals perception?
what is agnostic? Atheist? Are they just labels us humans made up because we have to understand everything???
We’re just the product of billions of years of evolution. Some things we will never understand
@@Rafaelhrndz I wonder if there are things we have currently got wrong or if there is something major we are missing that hasn't yet been discovered
Religion gives you answers just to make you comfortable but it doesn’t make sure that they are the right answers
A psychological band aid
@@SamuelBlack84 exactly that 👍
Thats why some people aren’t capable of leaving religion because they need it to comfort them even if it’s all fake promises they need to hear them
Wow! I had no idea we knew so much about our pre-historical ancestors who wrote nothing down! ._.
It's a reasoned postulation
Now you know.
@Earl Thomas I love being an optimistic nihilist.
Maya have writing, science, math, and astrology, that goes back thousands of years before any abrahamic religion was invented
In the past century anthropologist have conducted countless studies on the inner working and dynamics of hunter gatherers. They did this by observing newly discovered tribes that remained untouched by modern society . These tribes are found all over the globe, and by using the scientific method and comparing these societies to one another, followed by years of critical debates among fellows scientist, science has painted a pretty neat picture of how hunter gatherers function. These people are remnants of a way of living that used to be ours as well. If you want to know why our paths have split from theirs, the reason why we develloped a more complex society why they didn't, i suggest that you read "guns germs and steel" by Jared Diamond, and the discussions that follow it.
why would anyone still carry on believing in these things?
Why would anyone still carry on posting comments on videos just to cause shit?
+John Perkens answer you own question please
John Perkens Ass
Because the b.s. Story's tell them they don't truly die.
What the fuck do you think you really know about death?
I loved it!❤❤❤❤❤ Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
I'm not surprised by the many negative comments here, but this is an excellent video. It is not biased or condescending, it simply reports on how our ancestors thought and operated, based on the available anthropology we have today. Great job!
Be careful with any video made by a human telling how things were.
@@donaldmjbart-williams3144why? explain
@@donaldmjbart-williams3144 so aliens can make videos to send to us ? Humans are the direct worshippers of God and gods bruh
I think we need compromise and respect here...
Truth = Evidence that can be tested and when tested repeatedly gives the same results.
God = Love and Unity
That is enough to appreciate each other, people...
read almost every holy book ever. the God is always a genocidal, racist, hypocritical, lustful, power hungery.
hell he's like a child version of hitler.
+Prince Nightblade how many holy books did you read?
+Venkata Susarla About 420.
Venkata Susarla I haven't read any cover to cover. But I know from people who study holy books about the immoral teachings of those ancient mythological books
So all your knowledge is without even reading anything? Sir It would be wise to read something and then coming to a conclusion on it rather than observing the people.I didn't get what you mean by immoral teachings.
To believe in nothing is equally stupid as believing in everything.
can we all just realize that people are going to believe or not believe in what ever they want no matter what you think or say and move on? Coexistence is so much simpler. keeps your blood-pressure down too.
I like having high blood pressure so I'm trying to make as many deluded theists see the truth as I can.
@@TheTruthKiwi Well, I've seen you. Now what?
@@karoluslynx1746 Do you believe that a god exists?
@@TheTruthKiwi I am gottgläubig, there exists a person which is God.
@@karoluslynx1746 How do you know?
This video just shows that deep in our soul we knows there are "higher power" / creator....
our Soul "remember" it's origin where "the soul" witness our creator before it is sent to this sensory body in this physical world..and the soul WILL go back to our creator after we die...
that is why, it's natural when we keep having a "feeling" that there are "higher power" that govern our life...
Atheist or Religious, you knows.. within you have some sort of feelings about GOD - THE CREATOR
Or confused caveman make god to answer those questions
And i dont have any feelings
You think you have the feelings because placebo effect
Yes i agree, god exist,.. his name is Rah
Faith is the heart of religion. However, there seems to be no explanation to it in Psychology. Its only purpose is to make a person more resilient to the never ending adversities of life.
People are scared of dying
I think that's always been a huge motivator for belief
That's why so many churchgoers are very old
Their time us running out, and the prospect of eternal nothingness terrifies them
It doesn't sound like those things local priest told you does it?
Or thoses islamic teachers of mine.
This is more like animism then abrahamic religions
Nice video that goes with my personal theory; it was probably a dream of the early cavemen ... there was a superior "being" looking after them. Although these
beliefs originated in different parts of the world at an early stage, you can easily imagine that the concept of "religion" was mainly there to calm down anxiety
among humans (why are we here, what is the purpose of life on earth, etc.).
I Think Religion is a higher Form of Spirituality which was created by people who see signs in everything
So my theory is a prehistoric people's culture person had a dream about their parents or their favorite place, person,thing and made it their whole personality
Damn. 1:53 I thought there was a real bug on my screen, I tried to kill it.
Me too😂
@@eliezercorderofeliciano8413 what were you smoking hhhhh
It made me jump and heart flutter (not uncommon to get insects crawling on my screen at night, but that size was startling).
Knew someone would post, took more scrolling than I'd expected.
Too simplistic and naive view of early humans...we dont actually know what they felt unless we r in their shoes
Pretty much what i was thinking through this whole video, it's just assertion after assertion, no sources or historical details.
What if they didn't wear shoes?
XD
+Nowyouknow It's a figure of speech.
Yes we know, because they were humans like us. We know from excavations for buildings, tools
No, we don't exactly know. We know what they believed probably, much is lost in transmission, but we don't know why they believed so.
This was excellent, thank you! No reason to believe in one made up story vs another made up story. Well done.
Just only to believe another made up story on the origins of life. It's all beliefs at the end of the day
@ The Human Experience religion is false.
0:16 literally that's all we need to survive on this planet but we've evolved so much in terms of technology that these things have become more of a commodity rather then a necessity.
You found this information where? Apparently you found it somewhere and who could actually decipher its meanings strange that you could even say that this is where it began or how it began?
This video overall presents interesting arguments but the last conclusion, that religion is an obstacle to progress, does not convince me. Civilization and technological progress began long before people started questioning the supernatural. In fact skepticism and outright atheism probably flourished after such progress enabled it. Religious people don't seem particularly bothered by any new scientific theory as long as it doesn't deny something fundamental to their faith.
For instance, Christians and Muslims have a lot of problem with the idea of evolution by natural selection because it does not require the intervention of God. If God even exists at all, then natural selection means that He is not the architect of the human soul and thus is not its rightful shepherd. Sinful behavior is not a consequence of spiritual corruption but an adaptive behavior that evolved to address survival needs, and which thus must be dealt in a pragmatic fashion instead of a dogmatic one.
But as long as it doesn't threat a fundamental tenet, religious people exhibit no special distrust of progress. When was the last time the Catholic Church completely outlawed some technology or scientific theory?
Depending on when they stop burning the heretics. If you have no problem for creationist to introduce themselves as Science I am sure your kids will love to study a subject where the conclusion is God did it.
I'd recommend reading up on durkheim made good points that religion stabilizes society, funny thing he was an atheist.
EVEN the catholics are moving toward a more secular position on real world issues. However...they're not so hot on contraception. Or medical technology that facilitates abortion on demand. Or handing over the pedophile priests. Of course family planning is not that popular either amongst the (supposedly) celibate old men who make the rules. Muslims think Pokemon is haram. And chess. And pictures of cats. And women riding bicycles. Just to get a religious balance here. Oh yeah, and scantily dressed women cause earthquakes, nearly forget that gem! No, religion- get rid of it!
I don't know how anyone can prove that religion stabilizes society because almost every society is religious (the irreligious societies in developed countries are an anomaly in the grand course of human history). He'd need to show a large number of examples of societies that gave up religion and crumbled soon after - not just a few anecdotes, but a statistically significant sample that allows us to prove a correlation.
Your speaking from the perspective of modern day society and in modern era the principles and practices of religion have significantly changed, in the dark ages for example, everyone would be born within a certain social class and with certain circumstances were convinced they'd stay that way, the ones who publicly said the wanted to make a change or questioned core beliefs were tortured and executed and this continued for 100s of years, throughout many wars and then some light was shed on the practices of the church for stifling creativity and open thinking in order to keep power, after this ended the european world say a massive and rapid increase in innovation, new technologies, the printing press was invented during that time, and that as you know paved a way for new thinking...If all we did when we didn't understand something was say God made it that way, then we wouldn't learn how stuff works, and how to manipulate it, As time passed by, with every new innovation the church called it the work of the devil or said it was unholy and eventually adopted it and slowly changed there thinking towards certain things, when people first started doing surgeries in christian society they were accused of being witches and put through witch trials and all died, when the first open heart surgery was done, they accused doctors of playing God, protesting against it, but as you know eventually they just said God gave man the wisdom and knowledge to do these things.
Christians put many men to death because of open thinking and principles that are common knowledge in today's society
Stone age...def; ' The period lasted roughly 3.4 million years, and ended between 8700 BCE (or BC) and 2000 BCE with the advent of metalworking. :
It is not possible to know what these people called themselves since 'writing' has been at its earliest found in china around the 7th millennia BCE.
It is an arbitrary 'period'... and 'stone age people' cannot be grouped together as one. It is like dating the use of fire... come on ...
this entire video is conjecture claiming to be solidly scientific... i find it laughable when science is used incorrectly to promote a philosophy.
Philosophy is not science or scientific thinking.
it is the opposite...starts with a conclusion and desperately grovels to find evidence supporting it...
I always loved the idea of spirits being in everything. I think there's a misconception in what is meant by this. Of course the pre-intellectual humans actually believed in these kinds of things, but I think there is some truth to it. Maybe not a literal factual truth but some kind of tangible abstract truth in the mind brought through feeling (even though feelings can be so powerful in convincing us that they are literal, making us fear our intuitive insights - there's still room for interpretation and analysis). The mind can look at things in objective and subjective ways. The objective way is very literal and logical. The subjective way is often mystical, but provides an insight into the true nature of reality. You could say philosophers look at the world this way combining both aspects of their subjective experience and objective analysis and that is what it means to be truly rational. Fantasy is a tool for us to understand reality, as is logic which can prune our fantastical conceptions and theories to find truth. So when they say that objects have spirits, maybe they take that too far, and as you said, separated fantasy from logic. But when you take fantasy and apply it's concepts to logic, you can see a certain reasoning behind it. When you look at a plant, you can feel that it is alive like you. It has some kind of spirit to it that is the sum of it's functions to survive.
You might should look into Platon's philosophy and I don't mean the political stuff (which is mostly nonesense), but into his world of ideas.
What the hell do you men by this "pre-intellectual humans actually believed in these kinds of things, "
@@donaldmjbart-williams3144 Idk people still believe that it's weird to say pre intellectual humans. Maybe he meant humans before the age of enlightenment.
I love this 😂❤ a naturalistic explanation for theism
This makes perfect sense
Religion evolved from early humans who were ignorant about the world around them
Would someone happen to know of the observations on which the theory of this video is based are found?
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Yathish Dhavala Islam is ever existing religion .truth that God is one is recognised to man from Adam(peace be upon him)from Adam to mohammad saw many messenger come including jesus that God is only one.only worship one god and in what direct method messengers do prayer of Allah follow is Islam quran have all history sciences geography read it for one time in your life and change the life of world and after world in paradise including jesus is messenger and he give messege that God is only one.
and they were scared shitless by the elements and the strong animals they shared the land with ...how else would they come to the conclusion that there must be much more powerful beings
maybe because they thought there's someone secretly helping them?
@kudagenit Except, he didn't always, did he?
Terrible things still happened, and they justified that as some kind of test or that it was their time etc etc
I believe my religion is the truth because it has many facts which are scientifically proven e.g(creation of man) and many more shocking things. People say Islam is not a true religion than explain THIS!!! **I don't want any hate comments**
but islam came to exsistance in somewhere 600 or 700 AD isnt it???
You make wonderful videos. Please keep making them. Thank you!
The Sun-God HORUS was Worshipped Nearly 1,000 Years Before the “STORY” of Jesus. Check these Parallels:
1.Both were conceived of a virgin.
2.Both were the "only begotten son" of a god (either Osiris or Yahweh)
3.Horus's mother was Meri, Jesus's mother was Mary.
4.Horus's foster father was called Jo-Seph, and Jesus's foster father was Joseph.
5.Both foster fathers were of royal descent.
6.Both were born in a cave (although sometimes Jesus is said to have been born in a stable).
7.Both had their coming announced to their mother by an angel.
Horus; birth was heralded by the star Sirius (the morning star). Jesus had his birth heralded by a star in the East (the sun rises in the East).
8.Ancient Egyptians celebrated the birth of Horus on December 21 (the Winter Solstice). Modern Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus on December 25.
9.Both births were announced by angels (this si nto the same as number 7).
10.Both had shepherds witnessing the birth.
11.Horus was visited at birth by "three solar deities" and Jesus was visited by "three wise men".
12.After the birth of Horus, Herut tried to have Horus murdered. After the birth of Jesus, Herod tried to have Jesus murdered.
13.To hide from Herut, the god That tells Isis, "Come, thou goddess Isis, hide thyself with thy child." To hide from Herod, an angel tells Joseph to "arise and take the young child and his mother and flee into Egypt."
14.When Horus came of age, he had a special ritual where hsi eye was restored. When Jesus (and other Jews) come of age, they have a special ritual called a Bar Mitzvah.
15.Both Horus and Jesus were 12 at this coming-of-age ritual.
Neither have any official recorded life histories between the ages of 12 and 30.
16.Horus was baptized in the river Eridanus. Jesus was baptized in the river Jordan.
17.Both were baptized at age 30.
18.Horus was baptized by Anup the Baptizer. Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist.
19.Both Anup and John were later beheaded.
20.Horus was taken from the desert of Amenta up a high mountain to be tempted by his arch-rival Set. Jesus was taken from the desert in Palestine up a high mountain to be tempted by his arch-rival Satan.
21.Both Horus and Jesus successfully resist this temptation.
22.Both have 12 disciples.
23.Both walked on water, cast out demons, healed the sick, and restored sight to the blind.
24.Horus "stilled the sea by his power." Jesus commanded the sea to be still by saying, "Peace, be still."
25.Horus raised his dead father (Osiris) from the grave. Jesus raised Lazarus from the grave. (Note the similarity in names when you say them out loud. Further, Osiris was also known as Asar, which is El-Asar in Hebrew, which is El-Asarus in Latin.)
26.Osiris was raised in the town of Anu. Lazarus was raised in Bethanu (literally, "house of Anu").
27.Both gods delivered a Sermon on the Mount.
28.Both were crucified.
29.Both were crucified next to two thieves.
30.Both were buried in a tomb.
31.Horus was sent to Hell and resurrected in 3 days. Jesus was sent to Hell and came back "three days" later (although Friday night to Sunday morning is hardly three days).
32.Both had their resurrection announced by women.
33.Both are supposed to return for a 1000-year reign.
34.Horus is known as KRST, the anointed one. Jesus was known as the Christ (which means "anointed one").
35.Both Jesus and Horus have been called the good shepherd, the lamb of God, the bread of life, the son of man, the Word, the fisher, and the winnower.
36.Both are associated with the zodiac sign of Pisces (the fish).
37.Both are associated with the symbols of the fish, the beetle, the vine, and the shepherd's crook.
38.Horus was born in Anu ("the place of bread") and Jesus was born in Bethlehem ("the house of bread").
39."The infant Horus was carried out of Egypt to escape the wrath of Typhon. The infant Jesus was carried into Egypt to escape the wrath of Herod. Concerning the infant Jesus, the New Testament states the following prophecy: 'Out of Egypt have I called my son.'"
40.Both were transfigured on the mount.
41.The catacombs of Rome have pictures of the infant Horus being held by his mother, not unlike the modern-day images of "Madonna and Child."
Noted English author C. W. King says that both Isis and Mary are called "Immaculate".
42.Horus says: "Osiris, I am your son, come to glorify your soul, and to give you even more power." And Jesus says: "Now is the Son of Man glorified and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God will glorify the Son in himself, and will glorify him at once."
Horus was identified with the Tau (cross).
Amazing compendium!
The word of the day is "syncretism," that is each new religion was morphed from the old religion(s), so the new one takes bits and pieces from the old, and adds the new.
For instance, monotheistic Judaism developed from polytheistic pagan tribes of the Levant.
Catholicism morphed from Judaism.
Islam took from both Judaism and Christianity.
There are multiple stories of virgin births, divinities, and resurrections from other cults/religions, etc.
Stories.
Atheism is older than any Religion
No, its animism and shamanism. Atheism is just post-theism, and theism is byproduct of civilization.
Atheism came into existence in 18ty Century Lmao and Atheism did not Fking exists a Million or a billion years ago Animals another organism and Biological Beings are Not Atheists they don't even know this even exists
Fact💯
This guy lived with people from the stone that he know what they believe and think in great details
There are so many assumptions made in this video that I couldn't ever take it seriously.
Like? Would you like to explain your argument?
In the beginning man made God and man said i will create God in my own image.
Unknown shadow No, it didn't happen like that.
Byzantine Servant Then how did it happen huh?...That’s what I thought.
Unknown shadow
Exactly
Mechadroid 3000
Look up Relativistic Quantum Field Theory, The Big Bang theory, Abiogenesis and The Theory of Evolution and you might learn something.
Byzantine Servant - actually that's exactly what happened.
Thank you :)
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How would modern society appear much sooner? So if the cavemen were a bunch of atheists we would progress sooner?
Humans always choosed the best for their progress, Religion gave them the best supoort ever, without religions human evolution would not have attained such fast evolutions, In the name of god you can organise a mass of people, make them work together, control them, fortyfy them for great wars, bring rules etc. Religion was the most powerfull tool of the last era :) now with mondialisation it has become a big mess :) Religions = Old great (broken) tools
Prashanth Thiaga Yes I totally agree with you. I feel Religion oppresses people pretty well today as well, u only have to look at the U.S. to see that!
No. What he means is: had we not believed in the same fairy tales as cave men we would have progressed much more quickly.
Nodrog225 well I disagree with that then, I believe these fairy tales shaped man and oppressed the weak and kept people in order, Who really knows?
Looking in retrospect, how religion hindered human progress, it is likely modern society would have appeared much sooner. Sure some aspects of religion were quintessential in our progress, but most of them could have been accommodated under other umbrellas (like philosophy) without the religious baggage..
Faith gives hope
Calming but untrue
This is rather elitist. He basically concludes by saying that religion halts social progress, which really isn't borne out by the evidence.
There is some good material in the video but it is very biased towards a certain perspective and comes to an incorrect conclusion. But then again, you can't really discuss the origin of religion in a 4 minute youtube video.
He says culture inhibits those who could otherwise be the next Isaac Newton or Einstein. Culture is much more than just religion. For example; idealizing singers, poets, actors, etc. can leave you satisfied, and as you live vicariously through the works of others you abstain from challenging the obstacles of today. The "work a day" culture limits creative work trading it in for hourly jobs that drain your energy and desire to do anything challenging. It is much more than just religion but I recognize that religion has always tried to place limits and rules upon everything, so even if there is some bias, I think we're moving in the right direction.
I agree that our current capitalist culture limits creative work - but our religion is that of materialism. I don't see this current system as moving in the right direction at all. In fact, we are moving toward our impending doom. We can scoff at religious impulses and mythologies but the fact is that we are encased in a mythology (in the US) of "freedom", "justice", and "equality" while many are blind or indifferent toward the massive levels of poverty, wage slavery, and environmental destruction that are occurring. I mean, the Western scientific reductionist approach to life may be a better model that our proto-religious ancestors, but it is still incomplete and at times lacking in morality. Society would be better off today without nuclear weapons. That being said, I despise the modern versions of the classical monotheistic religions. So you are definitely correct in the original point that our culture is the problem. Sorry for ranting, hope that made sense.
"He basically concludes by saying that religion halts social progress, which really isn't borne out by the evidence."
Then perhaps you could provide that evidence. Like how religion promotes the acceptence of homosexuality.
Hey, thanks for asking this. Sorry my statement was a bit broad. I think that problems arise when we make broad statements such as "religion halts social progress" (or that it doesn't). When we say religion we are really referring to a bunch of different cultural traditions. So for example, fundamentalist right wing Christianity in the US halts social progress, I'll give you that one (and the same can be said for fundamentalist Islam in the Middle East). However, the social gospel movement in the 1960's was led by black church leaders such as MLK jr. This movement actually resulted in a lot of social progress and had it's roots and support within black churches.
Now this brings up the point that all events in history have multiple causes and effects and cannot be simply explained with neat little words like religion, ideology, or nationalism (though all three can play important roles and the dividing line between them isn't very clear). So if we are trying to measure the effect of "religion" (a term that is meaningless outside of context) on "social progress" (another meaningless term outside of context), then we're going to have a bad time. We need to avoid generalizations and instead examine how and why religious structures, beliefs and practices arose in particular societies at particular times, and what were the repercussions of those practices/ modes of thought. Usually we will find a mixed bag, because in the end we are dealing with the actions of individuals - who are complex - and not the straight religion or ideology itself. If Osama bin Laden had happened to be an atheist, would he still had become a terrorist?There's no way to tell for sure, but I can easily see him having used a sort of pseudo-Marxist ideology or a violent nationalism to justify his actions (and in fact, he likely did, as well as Islam).
Even fundamentalist right-wing Christianity needs to be understood in terms of its history in the US, the Enlightenment and its thought structures, as well as Western capitalism.
jeffiek not all religions have the same posture towards homosexuality so it's not a good example to use here
Once i was a kid and i was in the 3-4th class i got influenced horribly by the negativity from my class and from that i beaten a girl that was annoying but then i apologized for that, and she forgiven me, so does that mean that i go to hell? I prayed to god to forgive all of my mistakes, and anyway thats all
This is very limited... Not a word about the most important aspects of religion, control of social relationships, confort and meaning facing the inevitability of death, and set the symbolic bases and structure of moral parametters. The antireligion posture often unable the posibility of learning more about the complexitys of human beings and their myths. In a way, humanity it self has started with religion, wich doesnt mean we need to be creationists today! The need for god to explain the origin of universe and the way nature works no longer exists, but the need for god to give meaning to their existence is a right people have, specially nowadays. The faith is a human dimension. Industrialized countries have such faith in capitalism that they cant see or dont care about polluting the planet to a point there will be not return.
+Samir Petrocelli Of course it's limited. It's about the origins of religion, not what it has become.
+Samir Petrocelli You know that the word "faith" is simply optimism in a bad way (because sometimes people ignore reality for it like often...).
"Faith means not wanting to know what is true." [Nietzsche]
True.
Religion and morals? Tell that to the muslims throwing homosexuals off of roofs or the African Christians mutilating children because they believe they're sorcerers.
Tell that to the many Bible verses advocating slavery, discrimination, murder and sexism. Tell that to the indoctrinated children and folks whose lives are ruined by religion and it's oppressive, controlling doctrines.
Fuck off mate, the bad aspects of religions outweigh the good ones by a far bit.
Cavemen: wished i could eat this meat in a different form besides raw
a lightning bolt from a storm stricking a piece of wood next to him*
Cavemen: There must be someone of higher power bc of this!
- the first religion.
Except that Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta for example, are nothing like as the video depicts. A famous enlightened sage of the 20th century spoke to his disciple:
"'I am' is an ever present fact, while 'I am created' is an idea. Neither God nor the universe have come to tell you that they have created you. The mind, obsessed by the idea of causality, invents creation and then wonders 'who is the creator?' The mind itself is the creator. Even this is not quite true, for the created and its creator are one. The mind and the world are not separate. Do understand that what you think to be the world is your own mind. All space and time are in the mind. (502)"
+Phanteus The real thing actually is Theistic Religions(bad) and Agnostic/Atheistic(beneficial/good) religion. Buddhism is more in the atheism/agnostic.
assuming the "mind" exists.
if it did space and time would still not be in there.
he didn't want to generalize all religions in one take btw.
but the idea stays the same, stupid peoples try to handle the world in a simple and acceptable way. others follow the best one.(rinse repeat).
De Potter M. That applies to science and philosophy as well, anything that we globally take to be true and believe in.
What differentiates them from religion is, reasoning.
Phanteus
science and math isn't ours lol.
1+1=2 everywhere, anytime, any life form could find that.
and it build from there.
science IS reality, so it couldn't be altered if you look well enough. I don't have to believe 1+1=2 but it's true either way. water and sodium(natrium) will always do the same thing. ect.ect. religion on earth already has evolved separate (multiple times) on it's own while map makers and biologists sometime even share there discoveries. because they found it separate of each other.
De Potter M. Yes, you've just proven what I've said earlier. Science and math has reasoning, as a result we believe in them globally. They are our ways of explaining the world, and most people agree with it. However, it hasn't explained everything, and can not.
Religion is not based on reasoning, so its more like blind belief.
Certain Eastern Philosophy is bit different at "its core". It resembles bit more of Rene Descartes teachings at times like "I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am", which is also undeniably true.
Same purpose, different time. People's minds invented religion to fill in the blanks, only back then it was smaller, now common sense questions. Religion really does hold people and societies back form progress and equality, and it's very sad when people give their lives for a religion which is easily found false if you keep asking the question: why?
without an absolute sacred morality your moral compass would also break down if you keep asking the question: why?
@@GVSHvids not in some facets of morality. Take killing someone. You can answer that that’s morally wrong. It’s not a societal construct that it’s bad to murder. It’s forcefully stopping someone from existing which is unarguable.
@@denebh733 where does that belief come from? At what basis does it have any grounds? It has to be a quasi religious belief.
@@GVSHvids It's not a belief. It's like the law of non contradiction, it's just a universal law. Killing someone is not good because you're forcibly removing them from existence when they don't want you to.
@@denebh733 who cares?
Religion limits the knowledge and wisdom.
Wow! This is wonderfully done great job. I really like the style of this
I totally agree with you.
Religions began hundreds of thousands of years ago, they experienced an exploding mountain, and believed the great creature inside the mountain was angry and that was why the mountain exploded. They believed that they would need to placate this great creature by offering food and other precious things to stop the mountain from.exploding. These rituals became religions, and the great creature evolved to the Roman god Vulcan, and this god lent its name to these exploding mountains - Volcanoes.
religion maybe right or maybe wrong. But I choose to believe its wrong, and even if its right I dont want to worship a (or several) narcissistic assholes who punish you for not giving them attention, or doing things their way.
How the people can be so IDIOT to believe hard on the bible?
The real question is do we even have free will or is the universe just a story already written.
I think we have free will. The ability to reason would make no sense if we had no free will. When we reason with ourselves we're thinking about the consequences of an action and if we will take that action or not. If whatever we choose is already written, then we shouldn't be able to think about the consequences of that action. Because why would we need to think about the consequences if we literally could not do anything else? The only way our ability to reason makes sense is that its our tool to take the best course with our free will.
rident Thanks for this prompt... love this! I would say we definitely have free will, but with some limitations, mostly due to lack of awareness (look at the Ash Line Experiment) and then some of our lack of awareness is actually necessary for the mind to function. I came to this "free will" conclusion after studying some of what is known or theorized about in psychology. But, then you hear stories about people who tried like heck to "escape their destiny" only to find it followed them. Wayne Dyer (if I remember correctly) told the story of a guy who wanted to live where it was least likely that war would break out. After much research in deliberation, he moved to the Falkland Islands and then there was a little war that happened there in the 80's shortly after he moved there. Although, I think what the guy really did was spend so much time thinking about what he did not want that he manifested it.
My understanding is that the law of attraction does not understand the difference between what you don't want and what you do want. It only manifests whatever you are spending a lot of emotional energy on thinking about. So some people might interpret that story of the Falkland island dude as living his destiny, but I interpret this as the law of attraction in action and he got what he put his energy on. We are all free to focus our minds on what we want, so therefore we have free will and the whole destiny idea is out the door as far as I'm concerned.
Maybe follow the truth then if you don't want to be punished, such a hypocrite saying you don't want to follow God's rules then have the audacity to say "why would God punish me"?
The truth is right before your eyes so don't you dare act innocent
I was brought up a Catholic, I went to Catholic school and church every Sunday. I remember all of a sudden becoming ‘lucid’ during a mass one time and thinking this is all so strange as I listened to 150 strangers chanting verses in unison towards a man in a white robe. The words used were quite unsettling when you actually stopped and listened and didn’t just chant along with the rest of the congregation.
I now look at it all in disbelief that so many people can’t see that it’s all quite obviously based on myth and legend.
Myths often start life as true stories but as everyone knows the more you tell a story and pass it from person to person the more details get added and you can see how feeding the 50 can quickly turns into feeding the 5000.
In a time of lawlessness and lack of scientific explanation I can see how religion filled that gap but now religion in general seems so outdated in a world that can be explained by science.
That being said there are still huge questions that remain unanswered and religion may offer some comfort in explaining those things, but I’d find it tough to believe one part of the story when so much else is questionable.
Would the world be a better place without religion? Maybe
Would fewer wars have been fought? Probably
Would we all still be killing each other anyway? Yes
If everyone could understand the true meaning of life and stop looking at the differences between us all and instead focus on how we can make a net positive difference in our short time here then what a world it would be.
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Hinduism is the oldest religion on earth.
M a proud Hindu. ☺️☺️
Hindu was islam
@@fatihibeylik8040 bro search on Google which is the oldest..😇😇😇 and also search the oldest book..
@@fatihibeylik8040 doesn't matter all are myths
Light Yagami Muslims don’t roll around and in cow manure and they in those 1400 years they built the most legendary history of religious conquest in the world
@@Sea-zu4bj Found the proud islamic superior religion bullshitter. Always in a dick measuring contest with other religions. The most fragile and violent religion in the world. Literally killed so many people from other religions and more in his own and yet have the audacity to say, he is the best haha. You treat women like second class citizens and deprive them of rights. Smh and be racist to people on top. Get a grip, your religion is a fake story like all others, that too a bad one
The fastest-growing belief system is those with no religious affiliation! Religion is in decline throughout the world and it is beautiful!
It will make little to no difference in the long run since nonreligious have less kids and most brainwashed kids never grow out of their parents religion. Most believe that garbage even as elderly people on their deathbeds.
Humanity could advance so much faster if religion wasn't still holding us back
Religion is a reflection of the will of a society
@@jpphillips2748 that explains why our society is full of monsters and ass holes.... religion
@Manan Thakur actually Christianity has resulted in more deaths overall, even non-religious ideologies have caused more deaths.
I prefer we could have live in that past... Cz by advancing we just got divided, lost our peaceful and crime rates are increased no humanity...even old holding the religion they had humanity, low rates crime and peaceful life..
There was a lot of horrible things happening in the name of God back then.... crusades, witch burnings, ethnic cleansing, human sacrifice, and 99% of wars were fought in the name of one God or another. The only time humans had a peaceful existence was probably when we were just hunter gatherer tribes pre religion.
Religion= assigning the explanation of anything you don't understand to a higher being and magic
yousedcarguy No.
Believing in something makes you blind, Seeking for something makes you enlightened.
Would the explanation above be science or speculation?
People be like: "This is not what my religion is about. My religion is about _____(insert some bullshit___"
People are very firm on their personal beliefs and if someone is wrong about them, they're more than likely going to point it out for future reference. It'd be like if I said black people are less of a person than a white guy, there's no visible meter of how much the black guy is of a person but you would still correct them. The same is for religion fyi, I don't have a problem with neither black or white people.
+Ruslan Kardashev
Replace religion with philosophy, because really, that's all it is. Everyone has their own philosophy, containing elements about history and the people who lived in this world. Some people's philosophies contain a intelligent creator (god) others don't.
Which leads into them being correct when they say that this isn't what their religion is about, everyone's religion is individual, even if they worship the same name, building or whatever.
Religion is individual, so is atheism
The way that we construct our understanding of reality is individual as well.
Peace.
volkan religion is a false philosophy with false comfort and promises. It makes people not strive for something good, it makes people greedy, selfish, because followers do good only to end up in paradise and not for the sake of doing good things. It stupefies, numbs mind.
+Ruslan Kardashev
So than whats your answer to the historical evidence of clearly secular/atheistic leaders who have exploited and done great harm to people? Say what you will, the high death toll in the last century was not caused by religion.
DarkArtistKaiser the fact that it was not caused by religion doesn't mean it was caused by atheists. I mean one group of people didn't kill other group of people proving god doesn't exist. Your argument is puny, to say the least.
When life gets tough, people turn to fantasy.
And to think that by now in "modern" day society people would realize the inauthenticity of religion and all that it entails. But even thousands of years later I guess we as a people haven't evolved enough to understand that the idea of a god and religion, although comforting to some, is foolish and lacks any concrete proof of there being a deity that created all of this.
Or maybe you've just gone ahead of yourself, overestimating humanity's capabilities without thinking of why you're even here, why life is so mysteriously unexplained, why the earth is so precisely situated, or why everything in the universe (and possibly even technology) is so precise down to the last subatomic particle. Just because they were wrong in some aspects doesn't mean they were all wrong.
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Excellent vid! Understand religious people, don´t condemn them! Anybody can understand that god does´t exist some however have a hard time accepting it.
And I thought my phone screen is dirty 😂😂
whos here for "religious element of society"
well hello there NWS class of '24
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jimin's the cause of my insomnia
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How can I make a video like this? The animated part
Thanks for sharing this man! I nowdays see people in my country getting crazy behind religion and forcing and killing others for sake of religion.. It just pains me when they can't accept reality and continue to live in a fantasy.
Hey there shitty atheist,who created humans,who created the planets,stars,the sun and moon,who created animals and every living creature on earth,who created water/rivers?
@@yusuffaisal493 laws of physics, chemical laws and other abstract universal constants. Magic don't exist.
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@@lonely_meistersinger2794 But still laws of physics and everything you said would need some creater. They could not have been form of their own. And by the way, For you what is the purpose of life ?
@@Sara-gl2mg laws of physics purely based on math, and math based on abstract logic. And abstract logic don't have or need any creator. Because saying that 1+1=2 is created by some supernatural creature is absurd.
Too bad you can't proove your idea of origins of religion.
amen
The only reason god exists for people is in places they are too uneducated to explain.
For Example: "I dunno how x got here, therefore god did it". This is not an answer. Lol, religion just pretends to give an answer. Science is what actually gives answers.
If one is religious, then he/she willfully ignores the relevance of "Evidence". I don't do that cause I'm not stupid :)
The only thing which separates:
Knowledge and Information
Facts and Claims
Reality and Fiction
Reason and Beliefs
Wanting something to be true and something that is true
Atheists and Theists
Science and Religion
is "EVIDENCE". Evidence is how we determine what is true and what is bullshit. :) This isn't some rule I made up. This is just how LOGIC works. Something religious people don't ever seem to understand.
Hi what video editing software did you use for this?
7 famous religions oldest to youngest .....
1. Hindusim
2. Judaism
3. Buddhism
4. Christianity
5. Islam
6. Sikhism
7. Atheism
Atheism isn't a religion
@@eyeman0154 Yeah ok not a religion but a belief ... so 7 beliefs in ascending order !!
Atheism Is A Belief
From a story, to a legend, to a myth, to a religion.
I Love how religious people hound the non religious for evidence but won't provide any themselves when they are the ones trying to force their made up story on everyone else
exactly
A fellow human to say that you’re right would mean that everyone else, even those before you, is wrong, and you all can’t be right, but you all can be wrong.
A fellow human and where’d you get that information from?
"faith never gives you answers, it makes you stop questioning"
. . . Not to question stops progression..
Good video. Very clear. Thanks!
very fake
Religion is not the answer, science can explain everything, religion only complicates life in general.
Religion gives simple answers to complex questions to satisfy the stupid and intellectually lazy who want an easy answer to everything. And a lot of times the easy answers religion provides don't even make sense. The answers Christians often give give me a headache.
Both of them are great powers in my opinion.
Why isn't it possible that science and religion work in a same objective : To understand and improve life, even if they are using different methods and have different belief?
The "short-comings" or "truth" in science.
The "all-mighty" or "lies" in religion.
People tend to focus solely on one side, and we lose our sight on the bigger picture, the world itself and ourselves..
I believe these 2 works together in life, just like how a coin have 2 sides.
Utilizing the YinYang saying, losing any one of them will crumble the whole picture.
Just wanted to say do not let this separate us, human beings as a whole. Just my 2 cents, pardon my english.
When you remove lies from religion, what you'll get is rationality, logic reason which contradict religion. Religion and science are like oil and water
Religion cannot work on understanding or improving anything. It's better we leave it behind. It has slowed us down in all aspects. Today there could be a lot more harmony and prosperity if it was not for the idea of God and religion. Science and faith contradict each other. They cannot co-exist without either of them becoming non-existent
Why is there a constant smudge in the video. I tried to clean my monitor twice. I liked it otherwise
Sadly, its due to ones strong cultural belief they will still ignore the truth, even if it came up to them with a cane and slapped them dead in the face, they would still get up and ignore it.
The origin of religious when the first con man met the first fool
Excellent. Thank you for your brief conclusions.
Evidence? Sources?
How the fuck can any of this be accurate... lets be real here we have absolutely no idea.
+ChsSami Some of it can be accurate. Many experiments have been done that show that when people who are told, for example, that a sweater belonged to a person who was well-regarded, say Einstein, they are willing to touch and wear it but that when you tell them the sweater really belonged to Ted Bundy, a well known serial killer, you get a lot of "No, thanks; I'm good."
Does anybody think, intellectually, that a sweater carries the properties of the person who once wore it? That the good, the smart, or the evil can rub off on you if you wear it? People instinctively recoil at the very sight of something worn by an evil person. It seems something ingrained in our very nature.
Therefore, it's not completely unreasonable to speculate how ancient people might have thought that eating parts of dead people gave them their properties. That experiment, and the fact that some so-called _primitive_ tribes have practiced cannibalism in this fashion in historic times, and the fact that we have evidence of cannibalism from the paleolithic, all lead to these kinds of conclusions.
In short, they're not just pulling all of these ideas out of their asses.
+Edwin Luciano good point, we could be way off though but who really knows... i think we can go back but not as back as we think.
When he said will for the tenth time I started thinking there was a giant man in the sky named William.
And from that time onwards, the destruction of this world had already started.
May God’s peace, mercy, and blessing be upon you, my beloved reader 😊.
I am inviting you to worship our creator and check the evidence of his existence.
I am just helping you to enter the heaven by worshiping the one who created you that deserves to be worshiped.
Our creator has put scientific, linguistic, metaphysical, and historical miracles in his book( the Holy Quran) that has sent down more than 1400 years ago to make people certain that this book is from a mighty powerful God.
our God has put a challenge for all non-believers to make one chapter like the Quran which has 114 chapters with its perfection, arrangement, metaphysical miracles, eloquence, splendor, wise legislation, true information, true prophecy, beauty, scientific miracles, and other thousands of miracles. along with history, all the attempts have failed.
Also, he almighty put The scientific miracles that includes The chemical composition of the human ( the clay ), the expansion of the universe, the knocking star, the origin of the universe, the orbits, the movements of the sun and the earth, the rotation of the earth, the stage of development of the only type of clouds that produce hail, the mountain as pegs, the vision in the deep seas, the variation of the amount of the air along the sky, the front of the head function, the chronological comparisons of developments of the fetus ( the bones, the body, the hearing, and the vision), the stage of the developments of the zygote, the only pain receptors, the factor that determines gender ( the sperm ), the secretion of the digestive fluid in the fly, the fertilizing winds, the mechanism of secretion of the milk, and the forbidden type of breeding ( between relatives ).
You check them to be persuaded. Also, You can study the other miracles.
But before doing anything, raise your hand asking your creator to help you, to guide your heart to the right path, to forgive you, to enter you the heaven, and to save you from the fire.
I hope you do what I asked for and accept Islam.
Thanks❤️
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This one of my Favorite explanations of the roots of religion!!