Did religions create science to further their Gods?

Did religions create science to further their Gods?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrI1FsH4UH8&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbW_xKRBt_M&feature=related

After a bit of research on how religions began and knowing that what were relatively small temples in the beginning, almost what we would call house churches today, I wondered how and why they became popular or won converts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2h4KueeElo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMXHL2cRNzw&feature=related

Add these prophets and God?s to the Gnostic mystery schools and you get an idea of all the competition. Was it just between magicians and scientists with a bit of theology thrown in?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnvEHObMMH4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_meC_o_IDs&feature=related

Science would have been the tool to fool people into thinking that magic was being done. Everything from fire walking to levitation and mysteriously crying and moving statues.

God then would have been man made even as Gnostics of various religions were pushing for a God within as opposed to the God without pushed by the Churches who were more interested in locking in their converts to their thinking and that their hierarchy were required as the pathway to God.
Gnostics on the other hand said that all had a direct path to God and that Churches and priests were not necessary. Could they have been the true shaman of that day?

Gnostics believed more as Joseph Campbell did and pushed for personal growth an apotheosis by confronting God and mastering of ones self.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGx4IlppSgU

Add that to this. Wait till minute 5 + for the good stuff on myths and ignore the fear mongering of the LHC. It just happens that I could not find this work on it?s own.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2StRb3F0j6k&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc2Y6tJGnww

These show just how religions began and how they differed from the religious beliefs we hold today.

It was all myths from mostly plagiarized Egyptian sources.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x84m5k_2007doc-zone-pagan-christ-1-of-3_news


If I am lucky, after viewing all of this information, you will conclude as I do that---

Religions, other than the Gnostic based ones are pure myth.

That religions may have been the first to push science forward to help perpetuate it?s myths, through magic.

That the state likely took over this science to further it?s war efforts.

That Gnosticism, defined as basically the questioning of all beliefs, can lead to apotheosis or a rapprochement to the Godhead via knowledge and that this is the only way to truly have that personal relationship to God that all religionists seek.
It just happens to not be the mythical Bible God.

What are your thoughts?

Regards
DL

To answer your question: No. Religions did not create science to further their gods. (It seems that you may have missed a few history and science classes back in school, but I don?t know.)


I could be wrong, but it looks like that what you are really trying to present is ?Religions are pure myth?.


(BTW?way too many links?)

No, religions are not pure myth. Myths can be very constructive. Religions are social constructs, just like politics, and generally harmful? just like politics.

Actually I was trying to paraphrase what I think GreatestIam2 was really getting at.

However, just because religions can be constructive doesn't mean that they are not in fact Myths. I am not going to bother looking up the definition of "myth", but if god does not exist, or if the particular god or gods of a given religion do not exist, then that religion would be a myth.

I agree that religions are social constructs, but personally view the vast majority ( including the Judeo-Chrisitan-Islam system(s) ) as myth... but that is just my opinion.

You are comprehending backwards. Myths are often constructive. Like poetry, they can often express things difficult to express otherwise. Religion is social insanity.

a Myth has truth within words.
a myth, is just words.
humans having a spiritual nature, Myth or myth?