01-06-2008, 12:00 AM
Yes, I'm posting on a site that is not specifically about my particular path. I feel I've been welcomed here.
It may not be true that surviving directly from nature is a matter of learning survival skills, or that agricultural societies have more leisure time than tribal societies.
As agricultural societies emerged, whenever that may have been, I agree it's unlikely that there was a tendency to atheism.
I'd think that religion would continue on, after it stopped having survival benefits.
I believe the tendency in religious thought was to abstraction.
There are not many elements in an aboriginal religion rightly called abstract. There are few elements of an industrial age religion (different than agricultural) that are not abstract.
It may not be true that surviving directly from nature is a matter of learning survival skills, or that agricultural societies have more leisure time than tribal societies.
As agricultural societies emerged, whenever that may have been, I agree it's unlikely that there was a tendency to atheism.
I'd think that religion would continue on, after it stopped having survival benefits.
I believe the tendency in religious thought was to abstraction.
There are not many elements in an aboriginal religion rightly called abstract. There are few elements of an industrial age religion (different than agricultural) that are not abstract.