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darkphoenix181 posted...

ImTheMacheteGuy posted...

History is written by those in power. That's generally been religious people. This is why we don't hear much about atheism in earlier times.

the question is

in Egypt, they were religious

in Japan, they were religious

in Mexico, the mayans, they were religions

why?

These are distinct peoples that separated long ago. Even if their fathers were religious, they could have easily said, "chopping off a dudes head and playing soccer with it doesn't actually give us more grain this year"

it is not like these societies didn't have revolutions and overthrow the power such that the one dude who said "I am a God!" was never questioned


even with what you say about Historic revision, if a religious society conquered an atheist one, we would see in their records
"these heathen atheists were defeated thanks to our God!"
so you can't just say they existed but the religious people blotted them out


now, I am not saying this means you should believe in God or be religious
what I am saying is you cannot compare making up your own stupid myth about a cosmic firefly with believing in a God since very smart ancient societies seemingly with no interactions with each other for some reason believed in this higher power

A higher power, I dunno about any "this" higher power. I agree that the comparison with the dragon, which was then a dragonfly and then a firefly is not a good comparison. Interesting how the form changed twice in 2 posts, which is a separate but insightful phenomenon itself, how stories retold have details that change more and more across multiple retellings.

Getting back to the separate non-interacting civilization thing. Let's look at great flood stories. They exist in multiple religions/mythologies but only ones in a certain region. They've actually discovered the flooding event that did occur. I can't blame Christianity for such an asinine tale as noah, but in that part of the world, a flood did occur and they were displaced and it was quite reality-shattering. They had no way of knowing how or why it happened or the scope of it. They wrote it as they interpreted it. That doesn't mean they interpreted it correctly. This is much of religion.
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