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Pastimes : History's effect on Religion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (65)	5/7/2003 6:42:19 PM
From: Volsi Mimir	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 520

Since prehistoric times and going back to early humanoids, have had ritual burials and have buried the objects dear to the deceased next to him. The only reasonable explanation is that they believed in after life. And since these rituals are before anything close to what we call religion could have existed, I'd say we have a genetic predisposition to such beliefs. Like all beliefs, it is true if you believe it. And once again those that celebrated that ritual were answering the greatest fear and question, death and afterlife. Maybe respect and admiration became a tradition, maybe child bearing and rearing created bonds not to forget, a grieving ritual established or a grieving which helped console those living, yet in other cultures sacrifices (human) were performed for their social justifications - another human slaughtered for whatever reason, still a different function of death and those which left them in trees offering to the elements or those that burned their corpses as a ritual have the same belief as those which left their old people alone to die and those old people accepted that, all in belief........ Were they ingrained in their genes...... The Samurai self sacrifice for honor. Cannibalistic rituals. The ones who strapped themselves with explosives to kill ordinary folk who thought different, those that committed mass suicide because some idiot told them to.......they were all true to their beliefs also. When my sister's hubby died, peacefulness - a tranquility - came over him. My sister told him he was free to go and thinks very spiritually of that event, the nurse told me that many people die like that because there is a flood of hormones released.........I never told that to my sister, better she believes for herself what she does, there is power in belief. ================================= Programmed cell death ........Nobel Prize in Physiology 2002 nobel.se