It’s important to keep in mind that religion explained a lot of stuff, especially regarding health and wellbeing (you’re sick = evil spirits), before we managed to figure out the actual workings of some natural laws. I mean, hygiene was only “invented” in the late 1800s and the mere idea of washing your hands before coming in contact with a hospital patient was considered preposterous.
Nowadays, although we have amazing instruments that help us keep track of stellar bodies, we still can’t quite correctly predict the weather past 1 week. Might as well say that’s up to the gods.
More on topic, back on those times, each city had its patron god and it was common for conquered cities to lose their god, having the statue moved to the conqueror’s temple.
It’s important to keep in mind that religion explained a lot of stuff, especially regarding health and wellbeing (you’re sick = evil spirits), before we managed to figure out the actual workings of some natural laws. I mean, hygiene was only “invented” in the late 1800s and the mere idea of washing your hands before coming in contact with a hospital patient was considered preposterous.
Nowadays, although we have amazing instruments that help us keep track of stellar bodies, we still can’t quite correctly predict the weather past 1 week. Might as well say that’s up to the gods.
More on topic, back on those times, each city had its patron god and it was common for conquered cities to lose their god, having the statue moved to the conqueror’s temple.
Faith begins, where science ends.
God of the Gaps theory?