Part seven of Security, Human Rights and Religion. A great number of very learned persons, from well over a thousand years ago until the the present time, have, in many instances, devoted their lives to researching the history of religion. I think, it can be safely said, that due to many factors, not the least being the complexity and antiquity of the subject that there is often a wide divergence in any conclusions that have been reached.
Let me introduce a hypothetical scenario, with apologies to any person who may have previously written something similar. Imagine that one hundred thousand week old babies, half boys and half girls, are left on a large island in the middle of the Pacific ocean and they are the only humans on earth. They all survive because it is a very well provided for and benign island, and it suits my hypothesis. What, if any, religion will evolve ? How many generations will pass before idols are conjured up ? Assuming that they were not invented by the original babies' generation, would the sun, moon or mountain tops be considered mystical in any way. After how many generations will it be shown, and believed, that idols possess no powers ?
Will the people on the island ever start to kill each other in the name of a religion they believe in ?
Getting back to reality I must believe that through the centuries
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