Is G-d, a man-made fabrication of the mind's attempt to maintain some sanity in a drowning existence?

Question

How many people cling to a belief in God because they couldn't survive the inhumanity of this society/culture
without having something greater to grab hold of just to make it through another day?

Answer 1

I'd say that most EVERYTHING is a man-made fabrication of the mind. People project what they create in their heads. This society is a lonely and isolating one and so yeah, turning to an invisable entity would probably be comforting for many. So, it seems to be both a fabrication and one that has a universal appeal, thus unites. Wish they'd bring back hippie communes and villages of communities-that would serve a similar purpose without an entity. It would be called humanity for the sake of humanity. What a concept, eh.

Answer 2

God springs forth from the primitive limbic system of your brain, the last remnants of your reptillion past. The area where our raw emotions reside, including the irrational belief systems.

The 'religious' experience is triggered by deep depression, starvation, near death, or other highly charged situations. The 'born-again' christian phenomena has a scientific basis....yes, your limbic system. Why has man evolved this mechanism you might ask? Simple...it was a survival mechanism of our cave man ancestors to cope with a hostile and unknown universe.

The cerebral cortex is a more recent development. Here is where our rational and logical thought processes take place. It is here that the atheists have found their basis in reality.

In reality, there is no sentient, omnipresent, omnipotent supernatural being or force....therefore all the inequities and misery of the world will always persist, no matter how hard some try to get that limbic brain of ours to work...sorry

Answer 3

Believing in a superhuman being is NOT sane. In fact, the concept is quite illogical, since we base reality as to what has been demonstrated to exist.

However, there is enough circumstantial evidence to conclude there must have been a begin point and a creator, therefore God. There is also enough evidence of near death experiences that change the lives of those who experience them. People of all cultures all over the world believe in a God as well, before technology and now after the technology revolution. There may very well be a spiritual effect upon all of us.

Answer 4

That is a loaded question. If I answer it any way I agree that humans are in a drowning, inhuman existence. I don't believe that. Humans believe in gods because, like Freud first proposed, they want a continuation of the TLC they experienced when infants and children. And it is not all bad. There are troubles in life, but not drowning, inhuman troubles for most people, so a belief in someone like ones mother, who had kissed their "owies," gives them HOPE and relieves their pains.

Pain is an evolved or God given signal something is wrong in life and the anguish (pain) we sometimes feel in contemplating the unknowns in life are relieved by that HOPE.

The answer to your question is NO!, I think God (or Allah) is a real blessing to most people because he is the personification of our HOPE. HOPE is either evolved or God given and if evolved... for what purpose in the natural selection scheme of things? Are those who have HOPE more fit to survive to reproduce? Everyone I think has HOPE. Even a suicide has HOPE there is something better beyond his/her blowing themselves "away" with a bomb or a bullet. HOPE doesn't confer fitness, it is there to relieve pain, to comfort.

Good luck in life, good health, peace and love! I HOPE this helps.

Answer 5

No.
Life would be rather bleak without the belief in a higher power but I don't think that it's a fabrication. In fact I know with as much certainty that the sun will rise that God exists. I have faith. You either have it or you don't. You feel it in your gut. I'm glad I have it.

By the way, why do people type G-d instead of God? It's kind of bizarre...

Answer 6

There are many folks who do just that. There are also some folks who have touched the face of God and lived. Not some figment of their imaginatio. Not some fabrication of genetic material and chemistry in just the right hallucinatory form. Unless you open your mind and let God speak to you ---you will remain deaf to all pleas to do so. I don't intend to convince you of that. At the end of the trail (all trails) is "Home." That's the original meaning of God.

Answer 7

Hon, look around you, I mean really look around you. What do you see? Do you see things that are created, or do you see things that are random? Lets try another tact. You have a brain, and I would assume you are quite intelligent! Now, here is the question! when you look at anything nature has provided, is it a designed to do the job intended for it, or not? Is a fish designed to swim under water? if so, who designed it? A bird to fly? if so who designed it? An animal to walk on this earth? if so who designed it? Who designed the human and animal bodies we use to live in, so efficiently? We know it wasn't Micky Mouse! So who was it? If you get a ball of earth and rock hanging in space, without design, it will stay a ball of earth and rock for eternity! God? who knows! but something used design on this planet, and we are fools to ignore that fact, when it's staring us in the face! Have a good day.

Answer 8

Please do not insert blanks when you make a statement straight from a rational mind .

I sincerely believe that your summation is absolutely correct . It is a figment of our own irrationality where we need some common shoulder to heap our sorrows and happiness and in the process make a chosen few ( Preachers , Spiritual Salvation Insurers ) a wealthy lot.

Go ahead and enjoy your own wisdom and cultivate God out of your own conscience . Period .

Answer 9

Why can you not spell out the word GOD? People accept God because they know instinctively that all this just didnt happen one day by accident

Answer 10

No. Belief and trust in our Creator is not futile or the result of weakness. Actually, to deny ones Creator is both futile and weak. We are not autonomous.