doesn't mankind's history show that they would just keep re-inventing him anyway? Look at all the gods that have been worshiped throughout time.
2007-01-21 07:12:36 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Hopefully when theists realise that's whats happening they'll stop.
Education is the best way to undermine religion - teaching kids to think for themselves would keep them out of church.
2007-01-21 07:19:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes, there are more than 10,000 gods in man's history. Or at least there are over 10,000 currently listed in my library. There may be more as it's taking me time to dig through them. The Egyptians alone had over 1,500.
A number of people on here have done a great job of showing why religion exists. Religion exists as a fulfillment of very specific mental and social processes. To put it simply religion exists because we need it to exist in order to fulfill our needs. When we see a dog running we know it has a goal. We don't need to be told that each and every running dog has a goal. Our brain has developed 'inference systems' in order to process all the information around us. It's very complicated, and would take too much time to explain here but essentially religion is a result of all those inference systems.
It's very difficult for us to believe that something happened unless it was caused to happen. For many of us believing it was a consciousness that made life happen is much easier then it being a natural process.
Also, there is a sense of community born our of religion, we feel as though we belong and we feel safe in numbers. For many people when someone else believes what we believe it strengthens it for us. Giving us a sense of worth and a place within our own microcosmic social systems. There is a lot of really great literature out there. My personal favorite is "Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought By Pascal Boyer" you might want to look into it if you're curious.
2007-01-21 07:33:14 · answer #2 · answered by Dyonysus 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The only reason deities have been invented throughout our history was to explain natural phanomena that could't be explained at the time like lightning solar eclipses and a bunch of other stuff.Now that science can explain a lot of stuff there is no need for deities.
2007-01-21 07:18:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
There's the problem. People are inventing gods instead of accepting the God who invented us.
We are made in His image. We did not and cannot invent Him. The fact that we are made in His image is the very reason we keep trying to create Him and/or to create truth. For me He is the creator and He is the Truth.Maybe that is frightening to some people because they cannot control Him. In creating ones own gods and goddesses, one has some control of the process of both the god and the rules to live by. In the one God construct, God is in control. God makes the rules. And God judges us. We do not judge Him. Like Forrest Gump . . . 'that's all I'm gonna say about that.'
2007-01-21 07:24:54 · answer #4 · answered by cathyhewed1946 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God is possible, but evolution is the fact. The bible says that the world was created approx. 6,000 yrs ago when science says that the world has been here for billions of yrs. Although no one who is religious will admit to this because if one thing in the bible is wrong then numerous other things could be wrong also and no one wants to face that. I do believer there are higher forces among us, but evolution is how human kind came to be.
2007-01-21 07:18:31 · answer #5 · answered by Stacy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you are quite correct. God, as we know Him/It was invented by man because we need to try and visualize something we cannot comprehend. That which is created cannot fathom that which creates. All religions pay homage to a force greater than our comprehension. That is why it is so silly to fight over religion, since the dawn of man and man's intelligence we have been awed by the incomprehensible force of which we cannot put a name, therefore, we call it God.
2007-01-21 07:22:58 · answer #6 · answered by darkdiva 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is another way of looking at this.
Since mankind has always looked for a God to worship, wouldn't this indicate that there must be a God?
2007-01-21 07:25:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Most popular religions were dreamed up when we were much more primitive both scientifically and socially, so the new gods would be a marked improvement.
Besides, as somebody who came back from the dead, shouldn't you already know if gods exist, and which ones?
2007-01-21 07:16:43 · answer #8 · answered by eldad9 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Problem is, those idols are not the real GOD. They were just idols. GOD did not come from a statue, or from the mind of any man. If people were trying to worship the one true God, they wouldn't make false idols.
That basically destroys that question. Which makes no sense because you were trying to state that we are going to re-create many gods, rather than one, that already exists anyway.
2007-01-21 07:16:35 · answer #9 · answered by May 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
just like most planets are dead, perhaps man's nature is to be nontheist. once life starts, or in this case religion, then through the natural process of evolution, diversity emerges. But my point is that it only needs be invented once. The idea of religion spreads even when the actual religion fails to.
2007-01-21 07:17:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
When looking back through time, you do realize that what people are saying today about christianity has been said about all the previous religions.
It makes it much easier to accept christianity in socity as a phaze that we're going through instead of a final truth
2007-01-21 07:20:00 · answer #11 · answered by Ghost Wolf 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋