It is possible that strong levels of belief in God, gods, spirits or the supernatural might have given our ancestors considerable comforts and advantages.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even have the faintest idea about their lives, their trials, their hardships or challenges.
If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.
I think my ancestors had to be enormously strong emotionally and very courageous.
Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.
People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about.
Being with nature opens us up to divine experience.
To understand and reconnect with our stories, the stories of the ancestors, is to build our identities.
The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.
I want some fact-based evidence about where we came from. Things we consider mysterious need not be attributed to a deity.
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