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[Anonymous No.23359924]

Do you guys think monkeys or other animals believe in God too?

[Anonymous No.23359932]

No, part of the whole "made in God's image" thing is being able to contemplate the divine, the infinite, the transcendent. Animals entirely behaving on instinct, which plenty of humans do too (the default human is an NPC) but still.

[Anonymous No.23359959]

>>23359924
I remember my friend who's into conservation telling me that chimps have began to show signs of ritualised behaviour, and it's widely hypothosised that they have some kind of spiritual belief system. Which, in time, will naturally evolve into religion once they evolve to have a higher consciousness (if humanity doesn't purposfully stunt their development or straight up cull them). So, I'd say yes, although only on an instinctual level, the same way the higher power makes itself known to everything in-touch with the natural elements.
Crows also show signs of ritualised behaviour, although it's impossible to tell if it's spiritual in nature as they're so different to us.
>>23359932
We evolved from monkeys. Every primative culture has an instinctual knowledge of a higher spiritual power. Leave the christcuckery out of here. Soon we shall be worshipping God of the Apeman
>verification not required

[Anonymous No.23359963]

>>23359959
>We evolved from monkeys.
Evolution is a Masonic psyop. Many Orthodox saints have said that evolution is a heretical lie from the devil, including the Russian Saint John of Kronstadt!

[Anonymous No.23359970]

>>23359963
>Evolution is a Masonic psyop
Good bait.

[Anonymous No.23359975]

>>23359970
Not bait. Unfortunately society has been indoctrinated so badly, the truth sounds crazy to you!
https://youtu.be/Y0sdPLJO3cE?si=VdWtzQ2p8shs-9Ro

[Anonymous No.23359999]

https://youtu.be/qLnOA2NdYjc?si=TIgHam8d5Uh8yabH

[Anonymous No.23360001]

https://youtu.be/5o5bsxjG_CE?si=0UuWG_Cujs0Nr7fg

[Anonymous No.23360002]

>>23359959
>widely hypothosised
By crackpots like you
You're reading complex humanistic behavior into animal behavior to make up for gaps in knowledge. There is no reason why a spiritual belief system should be the conclusion that is drawn for anything more naturalistic

[Anonymous No.23360007]

>>23360002
>drawn for anything
Before anything*

[Anonymous No.23360013]

https://youtu.be/GtqRZfAKZ_0?si=4rT7wW1OsNjtbY7U

[Anonymous No.23360016]

>>23359924
Brainlet here, just asking out curiosity, not out of hate. How is this lit question, wouldn't this belong in the history & humanities board?

[Anonymous No.23360025]

>>23360002
>By crackpots like you

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael-Winkelman/publication/332109634_Shamanism_and_the_Origins_of_Spirituality_and_Ritual_Healing/links/5ca15e18a6fdccd46047ee90/Shamanism-and-the-Origins-of-Spirituality-and-Ritual-Healing.pdf

https://brill.com/view/journals/jocc/1/2/article-p107_1.xml

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1080/20508549.2007.11877813

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mysterious-chimpanzee-behavior-may-be-evidence-of-sacred-rituals/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/mysterious-chimpanzee-behaviour-could-be-sacred-rituals-and-show-that-chimps-believe-in-god-a6911301.html

Retard

[Anonymous No.23360050]

>>23359924
Your god? No. Not even every human religion on Earth has the same gods.

[Anonymous No.23360068]

>>23359924
They're all animists except cats, they're Christian occultists.

[Anonymous No.23360081]

>>23360016
Just wondering.
>>23360050
Obviously. Since the belief in a God/s seems to be embedded within Consciousness/Existence itself, I was wondering if this would also extend to other living things.

Like the universal trait to survive is embedded within everything, I figured something as important as religion/spirituality might also be like this.

[Anonymous No.23360090]

>>23360025
>Leave the Christcuckery out of here
>References studies and articles done by Catholics and Rabbi
Put on your clown suit, bozo

[Anonymous No.23360091]

>>23360081
Monkeys are social, their brains grow depending on how large their tribes are. Everything is monkey-morphized including God. Their idea of God is an ape.
To the lion everything is prey so ironically their God is a gazelle.

[Anonymous No.23360096]

>>23360081
>the belief in a God/s seems to be embedded within Consciousness/Existence itself
What makes you think that?

[Anonymous No.23360116]

>>23360090
Papists and Jews love their Masonic evolution mythology. "Trust the science!" they say.
Beware of such teachers who put "science" above Holy Scripture!
https://youtu.be/Wxin_8BHMhU?si=dsowV1wVLn1lJHCK

[Anonymous No.23360184]

>>23360090
>References studies and articles done by Catholics and Rabbis who don't derail scientific discussions through retarded christcuckery
Learn to tell the difference.

[Anonymous No.23360192]

I wish God would let me have sex

[Anonymous No.23360272]

>>23359924
What do you mean too? Humans don't believe in God.

[OP, too. No.23361026]

>>23360192
Use apus in your text messages. Women love apus.

>t. knower

[Anonymous No.23361092]

>>23359924
they saw her face, and that made them believers

[Anonymous No.23361120]

>>23359959
Chimps are stealing machetes and going to war on their neighbor chimps, using primitive spears or rocks to ambush prey under tress ... they're a menace either way and only a tolerable presence for their utility in testing medicines for research.