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Anthropology has done much for religion by comparing religious opinions and cultural practices across social organizations, concluding that religion is created by human society that practice it.
Assumption of modern anthropology holds that religion is in continuity with magical thinking (Cassirer 1944:122).
God is an imaginative projection of humans as it has been observed that images of gods
worshiped by communities resemble such communities. For instance,
Xenophanes a Greek writer observed that Thracian gods were blue eyed and blond while those of
the Ethiopians are flat nosed and black (Harvey, Van A. 1997). If gods are like the people
worshiping them, then the society is worshiping itself in the disguise of religion- this argument
has not been validated by all anthropologists. But this may make much ...
