Many animals stay in close knitted groups. Monkeys are also one of them. Since it is widely believed that humans evolved from monkeys, or in other words few monkeys were smarter than the others and their brain got bigger and they became humans. So in this blog (and some others to come) the point of discussion is not about whether humans evolved from monkeys or came from elsewhere, but I will like to look upon how and why religion came into existence and what it has to do with science.
When there were first signs of humans on this planet, they were still animals (we still are, but more of a social nature). Now we all have studied in school how our ancestors evolve from a monkey to civilized humans, so let’s leave that part. In those days also, it would have been difficult to manage without any laws and rules. So some rules must have initially defined and then and an initial so called early societies must have established. These rules must have gone through numerous iterations of refinements.
But I wonder it would not have been easy to implement these rules, without any law enforcement agency. There would have been law breakers in those days as well. So how do you enforce the law? Fear is the best form of enforcement that is valid till date and will remain so for ever. Now the question is what type of fear should be there… Brute force may not work, because that will put people in their shell or they may even revolt. Any natural cause of fear may not suffice their purpose as well, so the best option would have been the fear of supernatural…
Saying all this reminds me of M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village, where elders of the village creates a fearsome, but hypothetical, creature living in the sounding forest just to keep the villagers away from the evil world.
I am neither confirming the existence of GOD nor am I denying that. It is left up to you to decide if GOD really exist… they best place you may look for Him is within yourself. Fear is a two sided sword… first is ‘you fear God’ and second is ‘you remember God, when you fear something’. So the first discourage you from doing anything bad and second give you courage when you need the most.
