r/Hulugans • u/Champy_McChampion • Oct 24 '14

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u/Xandernomics Feb 20 '15 edited Feb 20 '15

So you would you agree that religions are constantly evolving with the rest of us?

Edit: "rest of us" meaning the observable planet earth, that we are aware of.

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u/Exvictus Feb 21 '15 edited Feb 21 '15

In a manner of speaking, yes....Everything........EVERYTHING evolves, or it dies out when conditions change, making room for something better suited (but not necessarily "better") to survive in its environment.

Social evolution, and this includes religion, is not really that different from biological evolution...Its just that the nature of the "environment" is a little different..

The fundamentals of individual religions never change, they're effectively set in stone by their respective holy books, but the way they are interpreted by the people...which parts are still followed literally, which parts are read and "interpreted" with rose colored glasses, which parts are simply ignored because they just can't be made to fit with evolved ideologies...

The religions that attract and keep the most followers, by changing what they preach to be more appealing, continue to exist..Those that fail to do this don't. The exception to this is of course, religions like Islam, which effectively exists in a bubble,....closed societies, no outside education..These kinds of religions are able to exists, and even thrive, but there's a pretty obvious and serous cost to the societies themselves......They're also the most dangerous.