of God. You guys have told us that we've evolved from inorganic matter. We say (as muslims) Adam is the first human creation and the first prophet of earth to preach the message of the oneness of God. According to your science who is this genius? You'd think you would know him.
2007-01-20 17:49:54 · 21 answers · asked by sam 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Does anyone in this place believe in God? doesnt sound like it? Well anyway he is the on e who created everything. Atheists are filled with a bunch of baloney
2007-01-20 17:59:14 · answer #1 · answered by secret love 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
We, the stories to which you refer were written by several writers and passed along through oral tradition.
I would hardly call anyone who wrote these stories a genius. There are quite a few writers in the world that could make up something better. Hell, look at Scientology. That cult was created by a horrible science fiction author.
Now, as to how God was first created. Before science the world was quite a frightening place. There was no explanation for natural phenomena and such. So it's understandable why people would create a deity to pray to in an attempt to gain control of their unpredictable surroundings. After societies began to organize and politicians arose, organized religion arose as well. Organized religion serves the powerful by keeping everyone in fear and justifies the actions of kleptocrats. Then came the prophets who expanded religion into a philosophy of sorts, including their own morals and thoughts on society/existance.
2007-01-21 01:58:41 · answer #2 · answered by anonymous 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not so much a genius as a lot of people over time, and actually a rather logical progression--I see it hard for people *not* to have come up with the idea of gods.
You get life from somewhere. Maybe your tribe is inclined to the sun, or the nearby river, or whatever. So you petition this object for help. Why not? No science yet, you don't know any better. All you know is that if water doesn't fall out of the sky, the grass doesn't grow and there are fewer deer to hunt. As your tribe settles and grows into a community and then a civilization, whoever's in charge figures out that people are well inclined to the whims of whatever they worship. So they give it a name, or divide it up into a pantheon, and claim to receive messages from it. Even people who disagree with the leader are unlikely to disagree with the gods. And if the deity says "build a monument" or "attack that society and grow an empire", people will listen.
Not my theory, by the way. Feuerbach.
2007-01-21 01:56:40 · answer #3 · answered by angk 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The who that is all the religious scribes, false prophets and the like populating the falsehood that taints morals and good people with confusion and misleading information much like Baghdad Bob?
It didn't take a genius to pervert Christ's teachings and defile the conscience of humanity. Nor a genius to buy into such poppycock.
2007-01-21 01:58:24 · answer #4 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam it started when God created Adam or made Abraham and his decendants as the chosen people.
From a historical athiestic point of view, modern monotheistic beliefs (belief in one god) probably started with the cult of the sun god Ra in ancient egypt. It declared that Ra was the one and only god by Pharaoh Akhenaten. The jewish slaves that fled Egypt probably took on similar beliefs before they left which then formed the basis of the Judaism that we know today and also is from which Christianity and Islam grew out from.
2007-01-21 02:04:11 · answer #5 · answered by Roman Soldier 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Actually, it was the Sumerians. Zoroastrianism is widely looked at as the first organized worship of divine beings. The origin of God is less dignified though. People made God up originally because they had no scientific way to prove things. So it MUST be magic. That's God. There. Yeah, real genius. God was created out of ignorance.
2007-01-21 01:56:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Gods were created by primitive man to explain things they couldn't: why the sun comes up, why it rains, why the wind blows, etc. Eventually, gods were used to help create order for societies: pork that is not stored properly can make you sick, so we'll say that god told us not to eat pork. There is no one person who created the concept of a god, it was a collective superstition.
2007-01-21 02:01:27 · answer #7 · answered by Bill K Atheist Goodfella 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe the idea of a God was created by the ancient governments as a way to keep the people under control.
2007-01-21 01:55:03 · answer #8 · answered by Whiz 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I don't even know if I'm reading your question right because it just seems to be a gargle of circular reasoning. It was an idea. Jesus was a philosopher. He followers just took the damn thing way too far. Look at friggen Constantine.
2007-01-21 01:54:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why did the (insert force of nature....ie. tornado, hurricane, flood tsunami, earthquake, violent storm) destroy my home and/or livelihood?
Answer....a force more powerful than humankind....a "God". How do I make sure it won't happen again? Find a way to appease the force (God) so he/she/it won't decide to do it again.
A force more powerful than individual humans is hard to explain for people without Doppler radar, satellites or just a BASIC understanding of science.
"God" is the label we chose for our scapegoat of not understanding the reason why things happen.
2007-01-21 02:01:36 · answer #10 · answered by thewolfskoll 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋