Even if God creates culture, culture shapes religious behaviors

If I experience an external entity named, for instance, God, the Universe or the Spirit, I can experience that entity as creating everything. This ‘everything’ includes, among many other things, the continued shaping of common feelings, thoughts and visible behaviors in a particular society throughout time. Such a society may have developed some common feelings, thoughts and visible behaviors that are called ‘religious,’ because they regard the professing of a religion. More widely, such commonalities can regard moral codes and rules of conduct in other fields than only the professing of a religion.

Now, suppose I do not experience an external entity such as God, the Universe or the Spirit and do not find that entity as creating everything. Then I just see, among many other things, the continued shaping of common feelings, thoughts and visible behaviors in a particular society throughout time. I can also see that this society may have developed some common feelings, thoughts and visible behaviors that are called ‘religious,’ because they regard the professing of a religion. More widely, such commonalities can regard moral codes and rules of conduct in other fields than only the professing of a religion.

But there’s also another consideration that some use to explain why religion would dominates culture.

They point at feelings of sacredness, holiness or divinity, to one extent of the other, in actions and objects. Now, if I have that experience, it applies not only to the inspiring beauty of music or nature, but also to cobble stones and industrial sites. Likewise, sacredness can be felt when I look at the continued shaping of common feelings, thoughts and visible behaviors in a particular society throughout time.

Even if God creates the scoring of a goal by football player, that player still scores a goal.