What is the importance of religion? (part-6)

As social complexity continues to increase in the course of social evolution, at some point the emergence of the Moralizing God or Moral God occurs. It is seen that at a stage when the complexity of the society increases, the religions change and the concept of moral God emerges, that is, the concept of punishment or reward, karma, etc. enters the human being in the hereafter. Here the relationship between doctrinal ritual and the concept of a moral God with social complexity as an average of the calculations of different regions is highlighted. The diagram shows that the doctrinal ritual-based religion was born at a stage of increasing social complexity after the formation of Kikare society, and then the emergence of a moral God-based religion after achieving even higher social complexity. The relationship between social complexity and religion was shown in different regions. Blue denotes doctrinal ritual-based religions and red denotes moral God-based religions.

The authors of the study conclude that the concept of a moral God was not necessary for the formation of society. This study shows us that the idea of ​​a moral God was not a prerequisite for social complexity and the formation of a larger society, but that social complexity and the larger society were a prerequisite for the concept of a moral God. The study shows us how changes in society have led to changes in people's beliefs, and people have gradually become more convinced of the concept of a moral God than of an immoral God. The various features of religion, such as moral God, are in fact a product of certain social conditions in the course of social evolution, and religious morality or the concept of moral God has also been created in this way. This discovery challenges the need for a “moral religion” with such a moral God in our present society. Religion was not a prerequisite for society, but society is a prerequisite for religion, and with the change in the structure of society in the course of social evolution, the nature of human religion has changed, is, and will continue to be.