Given the environment that early human beings lived in and circumstances they endured, isn’t it obvious why they worshiped nature and made fertility statues? The belief that human beings worshiped nature as a rebellious act seems to me implausible in the context of that. If early human beings were in the ineffable presence of God, worshiping fat pregnant statues would’ve literally been retarded. We have good evidence we weren’t literally retarded. Our epistemological curiosity and early subsequent knowledge gains (coordinated cooperative hunting, smelting of ore, etc) would be a good example of that evidence. We weren't so insane that we'd choose statues over a loving and providential God, or were we?
Early civilizations appear to have behaved exactly as one would have expected them to in the environment they found themselves in and with the intelligence they had. Lately I’ve been wondering what should have been expected from the conservative religious Judeo-Christian perspective. Can someone sophisticated outline his or her views on this?
Early civilizations appear to have behaved exactly as one would have expected them to in the environment they found themselves in and with the intelligence they had. Lately I’ve been wondering what should have been expected from the conservative religious Judeo-Christian perspective. Can someone sophisticated outline his or her views on this?
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