Religion is in our DNA podcast

 

It’s strange: as paleo people, we believe that our diet evolved along with us, making us what we are.  For instance, there has never, ever, been a vegetarian or vegan tribe or culture. Humans have always eaten animal products, some more than others, but ALL rely on the amazing nutrition in animal derived foods.  Eating animals and products taken from animals made us what we are- you can’t take animals out of our evolution and arrive at modern humans.

This is widely accepted amongst those who believe in an ancestral diet and lifestyle.  But, though most of us see ourselves as grounded in science in our beliefs, many of us at the same time deny the truth, or meaning of religion in our lives!  We denigrate the idea of a god, or of any universal laws outside of man’s own laws.  Many believe that science has displaced the idea of God, gods, or even religion itself.

But just because there has never been a culture that didn’t eat animals- there has never been a culture without religion.  Never.  Even the Neanderthals had burials of their dead, with flowers heaped on the departed.  There is something deep within us that requires us to believe in a spiritual world, a place beyond the mortal sphere in which we reside today.  And so it has always been!

To live without a notion of a spiritual realm, a place of higher goodness and ultimate laws and reason, is akin to eating processed foods developed in the past 50 years or so, and thinking that we now know better than nature itself, and can replace wild game, vegetables, fruits and nuts with chemically made ‘Beyond Burgers’ and do just as well, health wise.  

This is completely delusional!  To live on fast food, processed grains and vegetable seed oils is disastrous for our physical health and well-being, and is a fast track to auto-immune diseases and even mental health.  We all know this as followers of various renditions of the Paleo Diet, and we all experience first hand the amazing benefits of red meat, seafood, pastured dairy and fermented vegetables.  The Paleo Diet is nothing short of life changing!

But what about religion?  Aren’t we beyond that now, since after all we know there are no supernatural beings on Mt. Olympus, and doesn’t Heaven seem, well, unscientific?  

Well, only if you also believe that eating natural animal products and seafood is ‘unscientific’, and that a low fat, soy based diet of lab grown food-like substances slathered in chemically extracted seed oils is the epitome of true science and all-knowing enlightenment…  

We evolved eating and living a certain way- in Nature, in a circadian cycle with the sun of light and darkness, sleep and waking.  Ancestral types of foodstuffs,  cooked by fire and thus made bio-available with maximum nutrients.  In tribes of similar humans, working together for survival, and with good health as pretty much a birthright.  

The tribe had a center though, it always did, and that center was religion.  It is as much a part of us as our need for protein and fat- we need a higher plane to relate to, something above and beyond our daily lives.  

This was true all over the world- whether one god or many, whether Socrates’ daemon (literally a ‘divine something’) that warned him of right and wrong, or the many Hindu gods or those of the Egyptians or Babylonians.   It’s true, there are always some who do not believe in a particular god or gods, but there is always something that is worshipped.  Always.  

Just because, right now, certain groups (Communists spring to mind) that vehemently deny and denigrate any sort of religion- this only confirms that they are very wrong.

Mankind can, at certain times and places, put himself as ‘above and beyond needing to believe in a higher power than himself’.  He can even believe it, just as he believes that heaven can exist here upon earth, and if we just elect the right people, Utopia can be here forever!  

You can believe it, you can convince yourself that Science is God, and mankind is ALL, we just need to be modern and believe in ourselves…

But you’ll be wrong.  The need for religion, a higher power, is there.  It is in our very DNA.

Abandon Religion at Your Peril- on PaleoJays Smoothie Cafe podcast

Religion!  So Medieval, right?

Well, yes- and ancient, and paleolithic, and well- every other time bar none!

Religion is baked into our DNA!  You can be ‘trendy’, you can deny it completely: but you really can’t, not really.

Neanderthals had a religion, possibly moon worship, but we can’t be sure.  They certainly laid their departed to rest, bedecked with flowers for the next world).

 What we can be certain about is that any people who denied a higher power (think NAZI’s and COMMUNIST’S) - well, they wound up in a nihilistic NIGHTMARE, where in the Nazi’s case they started to worship strange paganistic rituals,  and in communism (and Nazi socialism too, come to think of it) they started in on dictator worship instead: (Stalin and Hitler and Mao to name a few worthies).

Our very species evolved with a notion of a higher power- a GOD.  Usually  matriarchal in the beginning, (the Moon), but then evolving into a patriarchal, SUN god over time.  It is in our very DNA- deny it at your peril.  

Go ahead: deny that there is anything other than man and random chance in the Universe.  Go ahead…

It’s a lie, a lie that is built within us to detect: from the Earth Mother, to Zeuss, to Mithra and the Son of God himself- they are all here, they are all US.  Your fake, climate change denial, hedonism and multiculturalist diversity nightmare all outline it in bright colours:  there is a God, or else there is nothing.  And our evolutionary dictates tell us that there IS.

If there is not a God, what is there?  

This has been answered, time and again.  

If you deny there is any god, it sucks you dry, from the inside.  All is nothing, there is nothing but blind chance, and life is nothing.  

This destroys you, personally.  You are nothing…

Then, you try to substitute, out of desperation:  You read fantasy stories where there is meaning, you watch movies where there is meaning as well (never realizing that the subject and plot lines of these movies and stories is taken from Christian and ancient Western archetypes), pretending there is meaning where your cynical, liberalized mindset prohibits you from looking overall-

And then, as your culture at large adopts this attitude of Liberal Thought writ large: you begin to notice the overall cultural rot.  Without an overarching, cultural program of a God Centered Universe-  

THERE IS NOTHING

Nothing to live for, nothing to aspire to-

Total hedonism, and then, ultimately- oblivion..

And it’s all a lie. 

Through our very evolution, we know this to be untrue .  We in the Western tradition have built a civilization that is second to none, that has transformed the world.  And we know what happens when there is- nothing.

When there is no belief, when everyone in a society, or the majority, believe in nothing: 

History has shown godless societies to be unfit for survival. Time and again, they have been outcompeted by both gods-fearing and God-fearing societies. 

When God’s law is not observed, the law can become whatever the ruler wants it to be: Ultimately there are no human rights, let alone property rights, as totalitarianism reigns. When religion becomes ascendant, so too does the rule of law. 

And human animals, when given free reign through the idea of no absolutes, meaning the horrid ‘anti- human credo’ of moral relativism- and NO GOD: 

We have here entered the realm of hell on earth.  Where rulers can determine who lives and who dies- whatever they decide, whimsically or whatever.   Where children die en masse, and so do the elderly- 

Like in any African Country nowadays!  We are talking HELL on Earth!  

But don’t say so!  Because, well since they’re from Africa they are a protected species...

BS- Africa is now, officially once again since the fall of South Africa: 

HELL ON EARTH!

And sadly, major American cities, like Chicago and Detroit, Philadelphia, St.Louis, and many others..

No GOD, no ascendant Western Civilization and culture: 

TOTAL COLLAPSE AND HELL