All religion are philosophy since non of them can be proven or disapproved.

Those that did not survive up to date such as Egytian or Greek mythology is due to the reason it won't survive in this modern day scientific world.

Even your shamanism philosophy...looks more like an elegant way of describing something we all know. Rain bring good and natural disaster bring bad. Just package it with different terms. Still, it is good to be able to believe in something like this because it make you appreciate the nature and mother earth. This is also a form of Atheism because you do not believe in god as the creationist.

Like I said, egyptian and greek kind of religion cannot survive in today's world due to it's "primitive" method of teachings. It does not "control" the society like all the top religion we currently have.

By control, I mean...things like telling you not to kill or rape or eat certain things..it is all social control. With such control, they can make sure people devote themselves into believing religion.

These religion went through years and years of refinement. Whether it is for personal gain or not, it has transformed into something that work for today.

It is also the aspect of social control that I cannot stand about religion. They say you cannot do this and that. So people just follow for fear of going to hell and other things they use to make your scared and follow the rules. What I see about doing right or wrong is when you have the choice of doing it or not. You should be aware of doing something being correct or wrong in the sense of society and morality. Why is it wrong and so on. Because by willing yourself to do something right, you are taking charge of your own life. You will become more self aware of right or wrong things in life. Some of those who follow religion DOs and DON'Ts will follow blindly and then when something else that is wrong but not defined in religion, they do it because religion or law did not say no. And they can get away with it. Their reference is only religion or law. Not self motivated right or wrong or morality.

This post has been edited by abubin: Sep 9 2010, 11:54 AM