JQ Jacobs Wrote:
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> Priests may have designed Nazca lines, expert
> says
> REUTERS
> Tucson, Arizona | Published: 09.24.2006
>
> "NAZCA, Peru — High priests at an ancient
> religious compound in southern Peru may have
> designed the mysterious Nazca lines ... the area's
> top archaeologist said. ....
> "It is logical to think that the Nazca people's
> religious beliefs originated in this ceremonial
> site and got expressed on the wide-open plain,"
> Italian archaeologist Giuseppe Orefici, who leads
> research at Cahuachi, said last week. ...."
>
> Well, an expert said so and "researchers say"!
>
> "It is logical to think that the Nazca people's
> religious beliefs..." would be easier to accept
> without the word "religious." Does anyone else
> see an assumption in all this? Building on
> assumptions is NOT logical.
>
> We need a parallel term for
> "anthropomorphization," one meaning to turn
> populations into religious believers. How about
> "paganization"? (verb nov., to make pagans of).
> Maybe the term "othering" is adequate.

What's your problem with religion being involved?

Can you name any culture that wasn't/isn't religious in some way?