To better clarify, I meant that a Zebra who loses a mate to a lion won't appear to suffer any psychic stress from wondering "why did the Lion take my mate and not somebody else" because they don't appear able to mentally create that thought. Because they can't think it than it can't threaten their existence.
Because humans can, we have had to evolve a defense mechanism to respond. A cultural mechanism to solve an issue.
This is why all religions have some common themes. They have a all powerful being of some kind, they have a story that explains creation, they have a "post death" story as well as having rules on how to live in order to pass a judgement of some kind at death.
I'm sure there were proto humans or cultures and civilisations that differed from this at some point, but they didn't last long enough for us to know about them. Which means that they probably were inherently inferior to societies/peoples with religion.
To better clarify, I meant that a Zebra who loses a mate to a lion won't appear to suffer any psychic stress from wondering "why did the Lion take my mate and not somebody else" because they don't appear able to mentally create that thought. Because they can't think it than it can't threaten their existence.
Because humans can, we have had to evolve a defense mechanism to respond. A cultural mechanism to solve an issue.
This is why all religions have some common themes. They have a all powerful being of some kind, they have a story that explains creation, they have a "post death" story as well as having rules on how to live in order to pass a judgement of some kind at death.
I'm sure there were proto humans or cultures and civilisations that differed from this at some point, but they didn't last long enough for us to know about them. Which means that they probably were inherently inferior to societies/peoples with religion.