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Does anyone think that religion is psychological?
You grow up believing what ever your elders tell you.
Because you trust them.
Until your mind develops to the point where you actually can question things.
And that's when people branch off from whatever religion to wher ever they feel comfortable.
7 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
You are on the right track, but I'll take what you wrote and put it into my own words:
Religion is a reflection. It reflects the Maturity of a civilization on a Collective Subconscious level. Growing up is Maturing. Evolving is Maturing.
A child is born using the left part of brain more than the right. The left part is the instinctive-intuitive part; the one in charge of dreams, the spiritual realm. The right part is the binary-rational part, the one in charge of social behavior. Children "are taught" to suppress the left part in favor of the right part.
Children obtain the religious imprinting from start. It is not JUST about trusting parents, it is about PERCEIVING ADULTS AS GODS. Belief in God is the SAME concept as belief in the "higher hand" of parents. The maturing of an individual is of same nature as the maturing of a society seen through religion. Seen through the concept of dualism, we evolve from instinctive to binary. Society evolves toward perceiving itself as part of its surrounding, despite all the individuals trashing our planet, destroying forests and burning petroleum.
Religion is an individual voyage, but individuals are integral part of a society as whole. An individual who is Atheist or Christian, would not have made it in the times when Animism was in harmony with survival (except that guy from National Geographic Ultimate Survivor). An Animist today would not have much of his spirits left in, hmmm, lets put Hong Kong as example :P Well, even in Hong Kong one can keep some toys from childhood if allowed space and not being ridiculed. Same way, you might not find smart to practice Monotheist Christianity in Monotheist Islamic Tehran.
Religion evolves from Unconditional Love through Conditional Love; from God-Mother and God-Father, into God-I.
Guidance is our spiritual heritage. When we see ourselves as God-I, we are still the same One Spirit, the same Monotheist God (inseparable of all the other Pagan Gods who formed us) and the same Atheist. But, the questions we make and the answers we seek, are of a transcended quality toward...
There is no branching. The voyage is linear. The direction is "absolute principle and center of everything existing". It is not about comfort, it is about Maturity.
Anegdote:
One 20 year old guy has been practicing sport karate for 13 years. I tried to explain him that kung fu and yoga are better than his sport karate. But I couldn't make him understand, because his team was making good results in competitions in the abroad and he was happy with that.
Same way, you can rationally explain a child what adulthood is, but not spiritually.
- Aya RoseLv 61 decade ago
That's technically sociological. Technically.
Christianity is still overall a social group to give 'laws' stated as morals, to people with an unseen, all knowing enforcer character. Other religions still tend to be social groups to give explainations to random events in the world. Sure it's a sociological construct with possible genetic cues, and has an effect on human psychology, but it itself is no more psychological then an ink blot.
- dogpatch USALv 71 decade ago
very much so . from the superstitious thinking found in BF Skinners experiments with pigeons to the innate desires of humanity prompting religious belief as Freud postulated to the psychological ploys of religious thinking used in politics and religion to affect the behavior of those that a less aware or need a simple crutch to act as their parent .
- supastremphLv 61 decade ago
Are you including atheism as a religion? That was what I grew up with before branching.
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- eLv 51 decade ago
yes. freud thinks so, and makes a convincing argument. pretty interesting stuff, i would suggest reading some of his stuff on religion.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
What can it be other than psychological? Of course.