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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: pezz who wrote (363)8/11/2000 8:44:00 PM
From: Solon  Read Replies (1) of 28931
 
That is early humanoids needed law to enforce the co-operation that was so essential for our success. Religion was this law. Judgement,punishment, by a angry god the court system.

I think you are being very kind to impute foresight, coupled with morality, to those that were powerful enough to seize the helm of myriad prehistoric tribes. It was very rational (ahem, again) in those times of limited knowledge and absence of science, to try to get on the best side of the primitive Gods that helped those who were obsequious with them, and opposed those who challenged them (wouldn't you know it!). I don't know if cooperation required the aggrandizement of those particular elite folk that were a couple of intellectual steps ahead of their brethren. The law givers may have just represented opportunism, and the principles of natural selection and survival of the fittest. I suppose both answers may be correct--in different situations...depending upon how cynical we are.
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