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I don't understand why an advanced civilization must have had a world religion. East Asian civilizations like China and Japan have always been largely agnostic for their millennia of history even while they incorporated spiritual beliefs | I don't understand why an advanced civilization must have had a world religion. East Asian civilizations like China, Vietnam, Korea, and Japan have always been largely agnostic for their millennia of history even while they incorporated spiritual beliefs and their commoners had their superstitions. Religion in China and Japan was never as all -encompassing as it was for Europe and the Niddle-East. Even India, while being predominantly Hindu had strains of atheism and agnosticism throughout its history. Buddhism itself is agnostic. The modern notion of religion is derived mostly from European and Western Asian belief systems; it is not a universal quality of every civilization to be preoccupied by religion. If anything, a civilization so advanced should have moved beyond religion. | ||
Anyways, there are no hints that the Father of Understanding was ever an Isu concept, and I think that's too far of a stretch. It's a Templar motif. | Anyways, there are no hints that the Father of Understanding was ever an Isu concept, and I think that's too far of a stretch. It's a Templar motif. | ||
But I get what you mean that we must wonder about the origins of the Isu themselves. | But I get what you mean that we must wonder about the origins of the Isu themselves. | ||
Latest revision as of 22:36, 25 July 2017
Callum Konstantin wrote: Like any advanced civilization, They too must have had a "World Religion" based in sumeting beyond illusions since their superior minds can see through techonolgical "magic"?
Was all this advanced technology their way of communicating with their Supreme Deity?
They too have an origin...like the Isus created humanity, but who created the Isus? Was it the Father of Understanding?
I don't understand why an advanced civilization must have had a world religion. East Asian civilizations like China, Vietnam, Korea, and Japan have always been largely agnostic for their millennia of history even while they incorporated spiritual beliefs and their commoners had their superstitions. Religion in China and Japan was never as all -encompassing as it was for Europe and the Niddle-East. Even India, while being predominantly Hindu had strains of atheism and agnosticism throughout its history. Buddhism itself is agnostic. The modern notion of religion is derived mostly from European and Western Asian belief systems; it is not a universal quality of every civilization to be preoccupied by religion. If anything, a civilization so advanced should have moved beyond religion.
Anyways, there are no hints that the Father of Understanding was ever an Isu concept, and I think that's too far of a stretch. It's a Templar motif.
But I get what you mean that we must wonder about the origins of the Isu themselves.