Memento

I had a slight debate with a friend who thought religion and divinity are intertwined.

My view is this - Religion and divinity are cause and effect. Man's perception of divinity causes him to invent religion in order to explain it. Divinity would continue to exist without religion but not vice versa.

What do you think?

Fred

adj. of God or a god; god like; Informal splendid - v. Discover something by intuition or guessing. - divinely. adv.

That is the definition from the Collins gem dictionary.
I hope that helps.

Lohan

Insofar as "divinity" is unexplained events, then divinity and religion are definitely cause and effect, respectively. As thunder and lightning were for our ancestors, so too today the mystery of how our universe and life came to be on this planet. The key to ending religion was never and will never be arguing against the existence of god; good arguments already exist and they make little difference to those not on the fence. The religious are convinced of their incorrectness, and the nonreligious are convinced of their correctness. The key to ending religion will always be banishing the ignorance upon which it rests. Now, the ignorance is of beginnings, of both life on this planet and the universe itself. If we ever reach a point where we can explain these, I imagine that all but the most determined pastors and brahmins and whoever who can somehow manage to keep their congregations abjectly ignorant in the face of the fountains of information available on the internet, etc., will keep their forms of religion alive.