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Sunday, September 12, 2010

Religion, Culture and Literature... One Big Happy Meal

Religion is when you believe in something higher than you, like god or a superbeing or something that is the cause of nature and the purpose of the universe.
Culture is the way you were raised and where, what you believe in, what you do and how you do it.
Literature is anything that is written down, or read, or some literature is even spoken.
How does Religion, Culture and Literature relate to everything and where did it all start?
In the beginning of time all Cultures like Egypt, Rome, Greece all had religious beliefs. They had a god or gods that they thought was higher then them to believe in, like a little kid believes in a superhero. They also had a way of communicating like writing and speaking with each other in their own way, this being their literature. In every culture how did all this writing and believing start? I think it all started just as an accident because no one knows who the first people were so you can't say that it was one Culture that started it all. The accident being that a group of people needed to communicate with each other to keep on living or else they wouldn't know what to do, with out the talking or maybe hand movements and mumbling life wouldn't of came this far. So after they discovered how to communicate, the group of people probably thought that there was something else out there making everything in the world happen, like natural disasters or just simple things like rain and wind. This could of been the basis of religion because they believed that something bigger was making all this happen, God or Gods. The praising for the gods all started because of something that the people needed like rain for their crops or for strength for their hunters or something like that, and with all this happening to this group they needed to write down what was going on in their lives. This is where I think the cave paintings and stuff like the hieroglyphics came in to tell stories about the lives of the people.
The literature told what happened to the group, like what they believed in and how their culture was thus making religion, culture, and literature all one in their own way.

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