Did the ancients who worshipped the sun actually have it right?

Question

Let's look at how we were probably created:
If you do not believe that God 'poofed' us into existence, than you know that all our energy here on earth comes primarily from the sun. It has provided the means for activity to occur here. To this very day, it provides almost all the energy that life uses on Earth to survive. So, is that the closest thing to God that we actually quantify?

Allyson: How does worshipping some make-believe deity help anyone?

Answer 1

Congratulations! you are now at the same level of understanding of God as the ancients were. Now let me tell you about a round thing that rolls, it's called a wheel.

Answer 2

Yeah. Why don't we just change the name from 'Sun' to 'God' and all our problems will be solved!

What you say is true. And judging by their beliefs, the ancients were much more logical than many modern people in their religious beliefs. I mean, A god that feeds you and gives life and light and that you can see is MUCH more logical than many of the modern monotheistic gods. A sun god makes WAY more sense than Jesus or Allah or any of the others.

Personally, I don't believe in any god. Even the sun god. Because science has disproven the existence of ANY god. And we now know that the Sun is just a huge burning ball of gas. But if I HAD to worship a god it would probably be a sun god.

Or maybe Buddha, but I only say that because Buddhism seems like a pretty reasonable, peacefull religion. But I don't know very much about it.

Answer 3

There is nothing wrong with worshipping the SUN. According to some cultures, the sun is a God.

It also says a lot about the person who worships the Sun, Rain and the elements. It is said the person that worships the sun is appreciative of what he has, rather than mulling and pondering and wishing for what does not have or has not seen. It means the person lives for the present and enjoys the present than worrying about the future.
The ancients had it right... Its a good thing.

Answer 4

I like the way you think. I mean they say that when the sun burns out, which it will, then that will be the end of the world. So I guess it kind of is the closest thing to God. I there was a God, then why do we depend so much on the sun for so many things? Such as heat, energy, light, food ( in the long run).

Answer 5

I know what you mean, it is similar to my beliefs. The only difference is I believe that all energy, as a whole, is God. If you go back further, something energized the Sun too. As we all know, energy can not be created, nor destroyed. In that sense, the Sun was and always will be, how ever it was not, and at some point will not be "The Sun" anymore. Good luck with your question, I like it. I hope the Christens to beat you up verbally too bad... wouldn't want them to "crucify" you, lol.

Answer 6

You have the facts wrong. Energy always leads to deterioration (in the end), unless its controlled by intelligence. Just cheer energy leads to nothing. In fact we know the universe if we keep going like this, will eventually be cheer energy and lose disperged molecules.

See Yuri-miller experiment for example, the added energy made small proteins, but destroyed them also inmediately, we had to extract the build up molecules from the very environment we wanted to make them in (cold trap).
The same energy used to make them,destroyed them too.

Life is the only form that can put sun energy to use .Sun energy in itself though never can lead to life (or it has never been proven yet, the opposite is though). Not just by itself anyway.

So life depends on the sun, but can never have created life. The very opposite is proven so far. With the knowledge we have now, we know the sun cant be a creative force. So they where wrong :)

Answer 7

Yes, I think they did!

If you go back far enough you see that indigenous or native people worshiped various forms of nature including the sun.

They had great respect for the sun, the moon and other natural influences that sustained and promoted life. These simple beliefs gave them a well ordered life and a guarantee that they will always have sustenance.

All of that changed after missionaries and other adventurous roving Europeans introduced Christianity, ownership of natural resource and land and prejudices based on race. They convinced native people that their way of life was primitive.

And ever since there has been a struggle between nature and man's exploitation and destruction of this planet.

We will do well to return to that simple/basic belief system; at least they knew how to take of care the earth's resources and not misuse it or deplete it for personal selfish reasons.

Answer 8

Hello. :) I think possibly they were more attuned to nature and possibly more advanced in other ways..... I can only speculate, but in reality in 2006 we still are speculating about basic questions to our existence so i guess it could be possible that the sun or maybe the earth is the source of intelligent design from a higher power (GOD) i really have a hard time grasping it, but to me evolution is bunk. There i said it. Evolution has only been around a few hundred years, but creationism and other concepts about how we got here have been around far longer than that. I also believe that we really don't know anything about the sun or our planet because if Evolution is wrong then more than likely our ideas about how planets evolve are wrong too. Thats just my theory critisism is gladly taken i'm more inclined to want to listen to other people thoughts than try and prove mine.

Answer 9

I like where your are going with this.

I would go a step further. Since our lifeforms are dependent on elements only manufactured in supernovae explosions, we know our sun is a third or fourth generation star (yes, old that 6,000 years).

So I would say we owe our existance to that massive star (probably a blue supergiant) that eventually bore us Selenium are other heavy elements essential to life. Plus gold and platinum make life pretty cool too.

So I guess the analogy would be that the Sun is like Jesus, and that old dead supergiant is God. Yep, those old guys had it right.

Answer 10

you got a point, the sun is the closest thing to a god and it's real. I think we should all worship the sun because if this god can't be proving to exist then we are all dead

Answer 11

If you speculate that the sun is the source of life, then you must ask about the origin of the sun and the rest of the universe. If someone worships the sun, they are incredibly myopic.