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Originally Posted by kingcoffee
Jesus Christ, primative people believed in gods and spirits and demons because they were too fucking stupid to understand the universe.
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or maybe they just were representing & interpreting their universe for their time?
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Originally Posted by kingcoffee
They thought people got sick because the gods were angry or that demons had entered their bodies.
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that actually shows some wisdom does it not?
We just have a better understanding today that allows us to describe things, as we perceive them, more rationally. Thank goodness we do have a lot more efficacious medicines nowadays. The rise of nation-states has produced some nice amenities in our "civilized" lives, but aren't we experiencing many of the pitfalls of civilization as well? Your statement presupposes that people in general are gloriously intelligent nowadays & that's simply not the case, especially when it comes to philosophy, art, love, or religion. Look to art history. That should tell you all you need to know really. At least look to 19th century european literature back when far more people were fabulously intelligent. The generations that came after the middle class first arose in nation-states & public education first became more widespread were really with it. It's from those people that free enterprise & decent standards of living arose, slavery first started to end & that women got the right to vote in Europe & the French also inspired our wonderful governmental model of checks & balances (that has now unfortunately fell by the wayside.)
Intelligence, like everything else, is relative.
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Originally Posted by kingcoffee
They beleived that a bad harvest or a bad season meant that the gods were punishing them.
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Well, natural law (God)
is punishing to those that do not understand its intrinsic rhythms. We should always be seeking to know nature & thus ourselves. So, if what we perceive as "punishment" is actually just a reminder that we need correction & to perfect our wills further is "punishment" not, in that way, love?
As one may have inferred, I feel that kingcoffee's post comes off as a rant. It's as if he's just lumping all these (ridiculously elitist) generalizations together.