[lbo-talk] Marxism and Religion

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Wed Feb 28 08:42:07 PST 2007


Isn't the belief in an afterlife and gods of some sort a near human cultural universal? The natures of those things may vary considerably, but I cannot offhand think of a single counterexample (though I am not a comparative anthropologist!).

--- Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:


> Human beings have been coping with knowledge of
> death for tens
> (hundreds?) of thousands of years. For only a small
> proportion of that
> time have their fears been assuaged by organized
> religion. There is no
> historical evidence that supports your implied claim
> that organized
> religion is inevitable because people have to cope
> with death. (People
> throughout the ages and across various cultures have
> developed many
> interesting ways to deal with death!)
>
> Miles
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