Vitality Of Religion As Part Of a Culture

[Zythus]

Originally Posted by chunky_cheese

Through positive influence and reason, from a very young age most people can determine if an actual will have a positive or negative consequence to some degree, though this perception is not full developed. For example, we know that killing is "ba-daong" (Kung Pow: Enter the Fist) and that peace is, in most cases, easier to handle than conflict and suffering.

Would you agree that it is this very desire, the desire to develop values and personal beliefs, that not only leads us to find leadership within a higher power, but to realize ourselves, as a group, thus forming culture?

I don't think its a cultural image involved in here. I believe that this desire is just another form of.....hmm...a form of ego. Egotistically, in the sense that one group believes in one divinty while another has yet another divinity. this intolerance of individual groups believe that their god is the one and only while others are false...a kind of ego is formed here.