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• 02 Nov 06
  

  ksuanth618 origin religion

• 26 Aug 06
  

  Jessie Stone

  ksuanth618 origin religion

  • Final thought: If one really thinks about it; isn't  agnosticism the oldest spiritual structure? After all--are we born believing in  a god, -or anything for that matter?
  • Most reference books list Hinduism as the oldest world religion. This is  probably because Hinduism has the oldest recorded roots, which lie in  Dravidianism. Dravidianism is estimated to have been practiced around 6,000 to  3,000 BCE and as such predates the Sumerian, Egyptian, and Babylonian cultures.
  • the ancientness of a religion should have no reflection on its viability or  plausibility.
  • It is not until the agricultural developments around 10,000 BCE that man begins  to have a sense of cultural identity. As mankind started living in large groups,  it is highly probable that the rudiments of what we, today, call "religion"  began to formulate. This is not to say there weren't belief structures before  societal man.

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  Jessie Stone on 2006-08-26
  This author has a point- It is difficult to say how religion began or which one was first. Still, I'd like to think the "first" religion began with the very same questions we've asked in class: Why are we here? How did we get here? What is our purpose?

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