ബുദ്ധമതം, ഇസ്‌ലാം, കൃസ്തുമതം മുതലായ മതങ്ങൾ ഇന്നത്തെ നിലയിലേയ്ക്ക് വളർന്നത് എങ്ങനെ? - Xavier William
Channel: Gospel Of Socrates : Charvakam
Date: 2021-12-07

#GrowthOfReligions #ReligiousViolence #ReligionAndViolence
See https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/1089151495043961106/5482571712100116811 for the full description
I had always thought that the explosion of literacy, information and knowledge in modern times would lead to the end of irrational thoughts, superstitions and cults. Instead, what we witness today is that even as more and more sections of the world population reject cultic knowledge and superstitions, cults promoting all kind of religious, political and economic dogmas are popping up all over the world. What is even more surprising is that even highly educated people including prominent scientists, subscribe to such cults and cult leaders.
In my video https://youtu.be/iNwRycgrYhc and others I have described almost ad nauseam how our ancestors took to religion some 50000 years ago and how religious memes of one god, eternal souls, last judgement and so forth evolved in human societies and diffused from one society to another. I have also explained how the invention of writing led to the compilation of modern religious memes and concepts into books such as the the Gita, the Bible and and the Koran and the religions based on them and how the dogmatic differences between these books led to the religious wars which have been plaguing humanity ever since. However these books did not stop the further evolution of these book-based religions. 
Interpretations of the same holy scriptures led to the proliferation of sub-sects or denominations of the same religions. The invention of printing was another momentous event which led to an explosion in the evolution of religions and their denominations. This became all the more conspicuous in Europe where printing led to the spread of literacy, which in turn led to the breakdown of all kinds of social hierarchies including the eccelesiastical hierarchies. This has given rise to the birth and evolution of over 40000 denominations in Christianity alone, denominations competing with each other for survival and for the purse strings of the devotees. Other religions of the books are also expected to follow suit into the genesis and evolution of various denominations of religions based on the different interpretations of the same book. (See my blog https://www.blogger.com/u/4/blog/post/edit/8696074239246636096/4645119032549823207 which explains the origin and evolution fo various religions and their denominations!) As a result of this paradigm change, Europe grew strong and began to colonise the world. In the process Christainty spread like a pandemic and overtook Islam as the most widespread religion of the world thanks to the better military strength of the colonial powers. Obviously there is a darker side to the origin and spread of religions than mere divine patronage.