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Post by jessicak016 on Sept 16, 2012 9:37:03 GMT -5
Wow, I did not think about it in this way before. Just as you said, it might be true that the authority tried to gain control over the society by telling them that the concept of afterlife was true to any people in any social classes during New Kingdom, who led a honest and good life. The other cause might be, however, that people, especially lower class, might have started to think that the concept of afterlife was unfair if it was granted only to certain people. They might have rebelled or gave suggestion to the authority to consider about it. Then over time, they might have changed it.
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Post by minchoi0923 on Sept 17, 2012 6:05:02 GMT -5
By telling people that anyone can be god in afterlife, the government would have taken more advantages on controlling people. Because people would get power in their eternal life anyways, why would they rebel against the government? We can see a lot of cases which use religion to control the people. In Hinduism, for example, people just accept the caste system because they believe that they will go to the higher level after they die if only if they fuilfill their duties. This is quite interesting how people follow the rules that seem unjust to other people.
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Post by hafizh on Sept 23, 2012 9:58:26 GMT -5
im really agree with you joanne if the egyptian people really values the religion, because for the promising afterlife. but i dont know whats the difference after and before they told their people if they could become the osiris at the afterlife. cause even before they know it, they still trying to be the person that favored by god.
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Post by minjaeyang on Sept 24, 2012 6:45:22 GMT -5
I mostly agree with everyone in that Egyptian religion had probably developed for better social control. Another perspective could be that in the old days of Egypt Pharohs were considered to be almost like a God and worshipped as a a very special being, but as time passed the God-kings gradually lost their holy and privileged image and the religious beliefs evolved accordingly.
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