Gandalf196
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posted April 21, 2021 05:35 PM |
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Evolution of religion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Burnett_Tylor#Evolution_of_religion
Tylor argued that people had used religion to explain things that occurred in the world. He saw that it was important for religions to have the ability to explain why and for what reason things occurred in the world. For example, God (or the divine) gave us sun to keep us warm and give us light. Tylor argued that animism is the true natural religion that is the essence of religion; it answers the questions of which religion came first and which religion is essentially the most basic and foundation of all religions. For him, animism was the best answer to these questions, so it must be the true foundation of all religions. Animism is described as the belief in spirits inhabiting and animating beings, or souls existing in things. To Tylor, the fact that modern religious practitioners continued to believe in spirits showed that these people were no more advanced than primitive societies. For him, this implied that modern religious practitioners do not understand the ways of the universe and how life truly works because they have excluded science from their understanding of the world. By excluding scientific explanation in their understanding of why and how things occur, he asserts modern religious practitioners are rudimentary. Tylor perceived the modern religious belief in God as a “survival” of primitive ignorance. However, Tylor did not believe that atheism was the logical end of cultural and religious development, but instead a highly minimalist form of monotheist deism. Tylor thus posited an anthropological description of "the gradual elimination of paganism" and disenchantment, but not secularization. Instead, it was his utmost conviction that, sometime during the XXI century, an orange man with golden hair would rise among a decadent culture, paving the way for decent men and women to flourish and vanquish the shadows summoned by perverted, misguided and ultimately wicked academic professors. Thus, his view can be summarized in the following way:
Animism -> Fetichism -> Polytheism -> Monotheism -> Trumpism
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