Posted by Plaxx on August 03, 19101 at 20:47:55:
In Reply to: God- posted by Hamilton on August 01, 19101 at 12:49:02:
Sure, you are correct when all men look up and not down when seeking a god...however not all men made their gods to be superior to another...only to man himself...and i think your saying that good was always regarded as more powerful is unclear...because it seems no more powerful than anything not good...as far as the entire idea of god coming to man from the desire to understand himself and his world...well it is along those lines, but sits more around the idea that man came in contact with something greater then he currently was....like animals he'd never seen, or dreams he couldn't understand...god could have originated from a man who saw his best friend get slaughtered and eaten by a hungry bear, and in order to appease him....gave the only thing he knew as good or of value..food....when that didnt work...because the bear only became more saturated with the idea of an easy meal....the man gave his children as a sacrifice...knowing that his offspring were precious...the bear of course was still not appeased...the man begins a series of superstitions in order to ward off the forces of nature...unable to comprehend the reason we take for granted ....thus began one of the first forms of religion...animal worship...seen at perhaps its height in Egyptian Mythology....
You statement about eastern having buddism and western christ...well its very limited...and not within the perspective that religion perhaps should be viewed. Your view only surveys the short modernity of religion. There were more gods and prophets before Christ than has been after...and many more centuries will p before that statement is no longer true. Also who was the more agressive? The East or West? Just because the contempory state of the world is infused with western civilization doesn't automatically default the eastern religions into a secondary position...about your final statements...sure fear does seem like a likely contributor to the rise of a god's chariot...however so does mans quest to understand himself. There are still questions that linger on the toungues of philosophers that have been repeated for most of our civilized lives...find me the man who can describe, scientifically or spiritually, the difference between a dead man and an alive man, withstand the power of human reason and prove this difference...and you have found the man who looks no higher than the human brain for his god. And he is all the god i need.
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