Tag: Human Information Processing

Why are religions similar to each other?  History and biology.  Religions emerge out of ancestor religions. Though the characters and details merge and morph, elements get carried through that allow us to track the lineage. But another reason for similarities among religious stories is that all of them are shaped by the human mind and our tendency to project the structure of the human mind into the world around us. Gods and magical beings have have human psyches, with quirks and limitations that are peculiar to our species.