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|  subhro2501 Registered Member
 Date Joined Dec 2004 Total Posts : 1 | Posted 12/9/2004 4:10 AM (GMT -6) |   | Last night I developed a new thought of Religious evolution on Earth. Religion has its base in different forms, the evolution and growth of every religion are built-up on the teaching, which are directly influenced through the Enviournmental state of that particular region. May I quote here that religion grew in primarily in two types of Civilisation - 1) The River Civilization 2) The Desert Civilization.
Life in any of the river Civilization has always been flourishing, and flowing. But in the flourishing Life of the Peoples of River Civilization identified its threat over its life only in the form of natural disaster, e.g. Storm,flood,Earthquake,Heat of the Sun etc. The Participating elements like the trees, River, Mountain, wind served the river civilisation for its prosperity as well it served a threat. With the motive to overcome the Natural disater - the Peoples of the Civilization thought over Worshiping the Natural objects for Mercy and relieve them from the Natural Disaster, or they erected a image to represent the mediums of Natural Disaster and Satisfy them through Worship to get away from Natural Disaster. Therefore the Religion such as Hinduism, Sikh, Budhist, Jainism are more adatable and Non-violent in Nature. But are draged into temptation only when they are attacked.
The Religion in the Desert Civilization evolved and grew, with the primary motive to earn the favour of the Almighty to conquer over the the Other group in the Desert. As the life in the Desert - demands struggle for every drop of Water for Individual existense in the Wilderness. Therefore the religion evolved Like the Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Zaorastran are more aggressive and Orthodox in Nature to gain control over others.
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 |  spenlake Registered Member
 Date Joined Jan 2004 Total Posts : 1050 | Posted 12/9/2004 4:27 AM (GMT -6) |   | quote: Originally posted by subhro2501
Last night I developed a new thought of Religious evolution on Earth. Religion has its base in different forms, the evolution and growth of every religion are built-up on the teaching, which are directly influenced through the Enviournmental state of that particular region. May I quote here that religion grew in primarily in two types of Civilisation - 1) The River Civilization 2) The Desert Civilization.
Life in any of the river Civilization has always been flourishing, and flowing. But in the flourishing Life of the Peoples of River Civilization identified its threat over its life only in the form of natural disaster, e.g. Storm,flood,Earthquake,Heat of the Sun etc. The Participating elements like the trees, River, Mountain, wind served the river civilisation for its prosperity as well it served a threat. With the motive to overcome the Natural disater - the Peoples of the Civilization thought over Worshiping the Natural objects for Mercy and relieve them from the Natural Disaster, or they erected a image to represent the mediums of Natural Disaster and Satisfy them through Worship to get away from Natural Disaster. Therefore the Religion such as Hinduism, Sikh, Budhist, Jainism are more adatable and Non-violent in Nature. But are draged into temptation only when they are attacked.
The Religion in the Desert Civilization evolved and grew, with the primary motive to earn the favour of the Almighty to conquer over the the Other group in the Desert. As the life in the Desert - demands struggle for every drop of Water for Individual existense in the Wilderness. Therefore the religion evolved Like the Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Zaorastran are more aggressive and Orthodox in Nature to gain control over others.
What if the evolution consisted of all people having the motive to earn the favour (establish their own righteousness) of the Almighty for their own selfish purposes. The trouble is that no person could even meet the demand to be absoutely perfect, both internally and externally. This inability to be perfect led to all men creating their own ways to attempt to circumvent the problem and build their righteousness and approach God. The invisible God, because He is loving and kind, became a man so that He could reveal the invisible God to men as a man. He claimed that all of man's efforts to reach God were utterly futile and would only result in eternal punishment. He claimed that the only way to become perfect was to believe that He was God and that He alone offered righteousness as a gift. To prove that only His promise was true, He told them that when they killed Him He would overcome death itself and rise bodily on the third day. His declaration that all their efforts were utterly futile made them angry and they killed Him. Sure enough, He rose on the third day to prove His words true. He offered forgiveness to those that killed Him and then went bodily into heaven for a time waiting to return and execute punishment on all who are not perfect. Spen Lake
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 |  JET Registered Member
 Date Joined Jun 2002 Total Posts : 397 | Posted 12/9/2004 12:03 PM (GMT -6) |   | Welcome subhro2501,
Great post. Very interesting. I'm certainly not qualified to comment on the evolution of religions. However, I wonder if perhaps Jesus himself would agree that the "desert religions" of his time tended to reduce to power structures. He spoke out against religious powers. He associated with those who were rejected by the religious powers. One of the reasons I am attracted to Jesus is that it seems his story cannot be reduced to a power ploy. The story of Jesus is the story of Love. (In fact, he taught his followers to love their enemies.) Jesus claimed to have authority as the Son of God. Yet, the central event of Jesus's life was the humility of the cross.
I don't think Jesus would care for much of what has been called Religion throughout the history of the world (including "Christianity").
Interesting post.
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