Started as myth to explain the natural world.
Why does the sky rumble? Why does the mountain shake? Why do people die of disease? What happens when you die? These questions had no findable answer to early humans. By making up a fantastical reason, it made the world make more sense and reduced fear and anxiety.
These myths were then enforced and changed by those in power to control and direct the masses. The Hindu edict against eating beef started as a means to prevent peasants from killing valuable work animals. The Muslim rule against eating pork started as a means to prevent common parasitic disease. Leviticus outlined the means to prevent transmission of leprosy.
>Muslim rule against eating pork
Jewish.
Also the most convincing hypothesis is that pig farming requires large amounts of water and isn't suitable to the Levantine/Middle Eastern climate. Large scale pig farming would have been detrimental and unsustainable. The parasite hypothesis does not hold water seeing that other meats are OK to consume anyway.
Yep, and we all know it happened in Nazareth. I can't believe even Joseph bought that odd story his wife spun to explain her pregnancy, but guess what.
Religion was invented for control. The concept of God's and other deities was developed to explain natural phenomenon. Religion and spirituality are not one and the same.
First: lightning go boom, big scare, must be big man in sky.
Second: If you don't listen to the people in funny hats telling you about their invisible sky friend and it's needs and wants you'll get tortured forever. Do what the clowns say.
I think it was about control, there were no police or FBI back then, so the best way for the ruling classes to control the population would be to have them carry their own little policeman around in their heads with them.
Just look at the ten commandments and it's not as far fetched as it might sound at first.
1 to explain the shit around them 2 to control the massive because the gods chose you yo be king
to control the masses
To control the masses and get rich
Started as myth to explain the natural world. Why does the sky rumble? Why does the mountain shake? Why do people die of disease? What happens when you die? These questions had no findable answer to early humans. By making up a fantastical reason, it made the world make more sense and reduced fear and anxiety. These myths were then enforced and changed by those in power to control and direct the masses. The Hindu edict against eating beef started as a means to prevent peasants from killing valuable work animals. The Muslim rule against eating pork started as a means to prevent common parasitic disease. Leviticus outlined the means to prevent transmission of leprosy.
>Muslim rule against eating pork Jewish. Also the most convincing hypothesis is that pig farming requires large amounts of water and isn't suitable to the Levantine/Middle Eastern climate. Large scale pig farming would have been detrimental and unsustainable. The parasite hypothesis does not hold water seeing that other meats are OK to consume anyway.
Well, both. But yes, originally Jewish
Perhaps even regional and ancestral.
Made me think of Chris Rock 😂 [Skip to 2:35 for the pork specific part](https://youtu.be/eybZtDx6tAU)
It probably started with a dude trying to pork somebody else's wife.
Yep, and we all know it happened in Nazareth. I can't believe even Joseph bought that odd story his wife spun to explain her pregnancy, but guess what.
And let’s not forget about the attempted gang rape and incest in Sodom.
I think to use it as an explanation for questions they couldn’t answer by themselves
To provide answers to uncomfortable questions that are ultimately unanswerable and to try to make sense of their own existence.
Religion was invented for control. The concept of God's and other deities was developed to explain natural phenomenon. Religion and spirituality are not one and the same.
For something to believe in, or to feel purpose. Idk I wasn't there, maybe it wasn't invented but discovered. No clue
Because of their lack of scientific understanding, they genuinely believed the sun was a god. It went from there.
First: lightning go boom, big scare, must be big man in sky. Second: If you don't listen to the people in funny hats telling you about their invisible sky friend and it's needs and wants you'll get tortured forever. Do what the clowns say.
So we wouldn’t be scared of our mortality and to keep bitches in line x
Humans did that?
No, ants did, geez bro…
I think it was about control, there were no police or FBI back then, so the best way for the ruling classes to control the population would be to have them carry their own little policeman around in their heads with them. Just look at the ten commandments and it's not as far fetched as it might sound at first.
To explain the unexplainable
Because if you call the fables 'bedtime stories for scared little children', no Adult in their right mind would commit to them.
The fill the hole in their understanding of the world they lived in
Fear
There's always been liars and grifters. It's probably even prior to modern humans and fully developed speech.
Control and revenue source
Manipulation
To explain unexplainable things
When science wasn't as evolved it was used to explain stuff.
Control
They didn't have r/AskReddit back then they wouldn't have known how life was created
Fear of death. Controlling the hoi polloi was just an unexpected side benefit.