re: Ancient civilizations. Y or N?

I think modern people underestimate how much earlier people were inspired by the idea of something beyond the material and how energizing all the unusual and unexplained features of the earth were to people who didn't have 1% of the information we have today.

Imagine an entire city filled with obsessive cult-like religious people spending every single day building/painting/sculpting and being told those acts will either save or destroy your groups ability to thrive.

The Mayans sacrificed people to the "Sun god". Why would they do something so drastic if there wasn't a near psychotic-belief that it would effect their reality or have a massive impact on their group?


What you see as advancement is really just a cult-like obsession to detail.

We saw a lot of this in Renaissance artworks, an absolute cult-like devotion to the images and detail can create something that seems almost otherworldly.

This is how I see things at least. You just have to understand how far people can be pulled into believing in something outside of the immediate material. Very tough for the modern secular/materialist/atheist to understand.