animism

My atheist journey still brings me to astonishing new things. I'd assumed primitive people were, by default, superstitious (religious, spiritual, whatever you want to call it). The Pirahã of the Amazon seem to live completely without imaginary friends, and for all intents and purposes appear...

I really wish I had more learning in these feilds, but I have always felt that religion is like a weed, you can cut off the stalk, but if you don't pull it by the root it will spring right back. Animism has been called the root of religion (of course this seems to be greatly argued) the idea...

Offerings to a Stone Snake Provide the Earliest Evidence of Religion.