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History of God

Book by Karen Armstrong · 1 quotes · Early Humans, Human Cognition, Human Experience

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“Indeed, there is a case for arguing that Homo Sapiens is also Homo Religious. Men and women started to worship gods as soon as they became recognizably human; they created religions at the same time as they created works of art. This was not simply because they wanted to propitiate powerful forces; these early faiths expressed the wonder and mystery that seem always to have been an essential component of the human experience of this beautiful yet terrifying world. (…) It was not tacked onto a primordially secular nature by manipulative kings and priests but was natural to humanity.”

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