The Big Story: Origins of Religion
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Sources:
The Forest People, by Colin M Turnbull, 1961
The Old Way: A Story of the First People, by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, 2006
The Evolution of God, by Robert Wright, 2009
Additional Reading:
"Evolutionary origin of religions," Wikipedia
The Dawn of Belief: Religon in the Upper Paleolithic of Southwestern Europe, Chapters 4~7, by D Bruce Dickson, 1990
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, by Émile Durkheim, 1915
Script adapted from here:
www.macrohistory.com/h1/ch00.htm
Narrator:
www.matthewkendrick.com/
Soundtrack:
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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...
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
Wow! This is wonderfully done great job. I really like the style of this
"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.
Limited by class
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
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.
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.
I'm going to eat now. The stomach gods are angry!
You are a foolish person
@@sonofdeath7818 r/whoosh
@@sonofdeath7818 humor has left the commentsection
@@sonofdeath7818 Ok Karen
You mean, "hangry". Them gods are never satisfied.🤣😂
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)
The origin of religious when the first con man met the first fool
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
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
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 KZhead cartoons about the paleolithic, each with a different twist.
Religion is a supernatural belief while ignoring reality
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.
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
Everyone is arguing about theology and religion, and I'm just here listening to the song.
same
its a damn bop
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.
What a great approach, congratulations Yathish!!!
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 make wonderful videos. Please keep making them. Thank you!
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?
Nice video in short. Thanks a lot for this info.
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
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?
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.
Religion is mankind's version of an awkward teenage phase
I love the background music so much it's a vibe.
Such a good video! It should have way more views!
Excellent work! Any idea if you plan to have other languages CC, Spanish for example
I loved it!❤❤❤❤❤ Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
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
Thank you :) Soundtrack is Four Tet - Angel Echoes (Jon Hopkins remix). Link is given in the description..
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
Your videos are awesome! Why did you stop!
JustDance Pinky33 Thanks! I moved onto other things..
Very informative video.
I'm an atheist and I didn't feel like this video explained the origins; instead, just threw inconspicuous jabs at the absurdity of religions.
samy said The video tries to reasonably explain why religion existed in the first place. Of course, the video does not properly conclude its title.
+samy said How would you explain it?
***** You would explain the origins of religions as "the sun, weather, night, day, death, etc"?
***** But that's what the video did, didn't it?
***** I get that. What I am talking about is the original comment of this video. He claimed that "I didn't feel like this video explained the origins; instead, just threw inconspicuous jabs at the absurdity of religions." Therefore I asked him, how would he have better explained 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?
This "Will" guy sounds really powerful. There's not many people I know who can move the sun and moon.
Religion limits the knowledge and wisdom.
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
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.
It really explains so much.thank you.
Atheism is older than any Religion
No, its animism and shamanism. Atheism is just post-theism, and theism is byproduct of civilization.
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?
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.
This is a very simplistic view that does not even scratch the surface.
VERY WELL NARRATED
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?
Very well explained briefly about the religion thanks for educating religious creed.
Ancient peoples knew the earth was round not flat
i'd like to help you to add the Turkish translation of the subtitle
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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.
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.
Perfectly put out!
Is there a way for someone to post the script for this video please? :)
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.
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?
Hi what video editing software did you use for this?
How can I make a video like this? The animated part
its sad to think that the majority of people on this planet still believe the fables created by primitives to fill the void created by their utter lack of understanding about the universe. we have the knowledge now, but nope! these people still believe the fables.
agreed
What business is it of yours if people decide to believe in religion or not? As long as no one is trying to force their belief on you, then you don't need to worry about what others believe. Live and let live.
DollDarling people's belief effect their actions, their actions effect us all, go ask the people of Nice why they should care what the Islamic State guy in a truck thinks... do you live in some bubble? here in the real world atrocities in the name of mythology happen DAILY.
With most people. you will find that if you didn't worry about what religion they were, they are nice people. Honestly, religion is something you have to decide about yourself. No one can do it for you....and you really shouldn't compare ISIS and terrorist with typical religious people. Those people are extremists and typical religious people are not like that.
DollDarling shall we look at america? gay marriage has only just been legalised, much to the objection of christian homophobes, some schools are at this very moment are teaching MYTHOLOGY in the science classroom as an alternative to facts (evolution), and jewish parents are still mutilating the genitals of their children, because a book tells them too. religion has no place in the civil modern world.
actually most archeological evidence shows the earliest religions were all monotheistic, pantheistic religions evolve later. for example the majority of the native american tribes that lived here all believed in a "great spirit creator" kind of like an all powerful god chistians believe in, but on top of that they believed in tons of lesser spirits. and this is where most of the difference comes from among native religions
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.
Had to make a summary of this video for RS homework
uaoooooooooooooooooooooo! This great! Congratulations to the authors!
And I thought my phone screen is dirty 😂😂
"faith never gives you answers, it makes you stop questioning" . . . Not to question stops progression..
Using Jon Hopkin's remix of Angel echos!! Respect earned.
Excellent. Thank you for your brief conclusions.
Both religion and science improve by recognizing culture, and going back to the roots of what makes people, people. That is the power of contemporary science and religion.
How does religion 'improve'? This makes no sense in any way at all.
This guy lived with people from the stone that he know what they believe and think in great details
I've been trying to find this video for years
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.
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.
Would someone happen to know of the observations on which the theory of this video is based are found?
Excellent ! Now that's what I call the e way of explaining things.
Great vid,but that ending was something to disagree on
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.
Great video.
I got to wipe my screen twice before realized the background has smoke effect on it.
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...
Good video. Very clear. Thanks!
very fake
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So the question we need to ask is who was the first to advance and by what means did he advance?
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
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.
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.
Excellent video, very objective, and very useful for my research☺️
When life gets tough, people turn to fantasy.
Religion= assigning the explanation of anything you don't understand to a higher being and magic
yousedcarguy No.
All the time I'm struggling with my religion, this kinda helps but even though this makes sense because you are thought about religion all your life its hard to stop believing I really wan t tom someone to talk to me about this because I've suffered so much from believing in God.
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
From a story, to a legend, to a myth, to a religion.
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?
Have to watch this for school and the music is distracting me
Such nonsense! HOW do these folks know what stone age people thought? WHY do they assume * all * stone age people shared one system of belief? WHEN during the stone age (a span of roughly 3.5 million years) does this take place? WHERE on earth did they find evidence that proves any of this? Any person with the slightest knowledge of this era, or even decent critical thinking skills, should be able figure out that without a written record, there's very, very little we can know about prehistoric societies. Everyone on KZhead, both the religious and non-religious, should be highly skeptical of detailed narratives regarding the thoughts and beliefs of early man. We have the remains of some structures, we have some artifacts, we've got some fossils and a handful of burial sites - an extremely meager sample of data, considering there have been 7,500 generations of homo sapiens. There simply isn't enough data from any one era or place from which to weave a narrative of any sort about any of it.
And no, I'm not a religious person. I just know irresponsible conjecture masquerading as education when I see it.
This a video made for TED. You may find some answers to your questions looking for TED's video, they use to put direct references in the description, or a link to their respective article, wich has the references. There is also some additional readings in the description of this video. Hope I helped. Bad for my sorry English.
Erick Lopes Thanks, it's a good suggestion.
Also note your stone age era is a bit too large.
170221dn Feel free to give a better time frame.