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What is a 'god'? A poll for anyone with an opinion about what all the fuss is about.

Poll: What do you think gods are?
This poll is closed.
God is a being with awareness of others and of everything in the physical world which he himself brought into being. Literally.
3.23%
 1 3.23%
There is a propensity for people to attribute to God what is beyond their limited conscious mind, which lies hidden from them in the deeper levels of the unconscious mind.
12.90%
 4 12.90%
God is an artifact of early man's attempt to understand the world around him. Essentially God is a mistake in understanding and that is all.
29.03%
 9 29.03%
God is a kind of shared social hallucination. It is a form of insanity albeit a common one.
25.81%
 8 25.81%
Belief in gods is a social practice. The perception of a god is the result of a kind of group hypnosis. Who knows how social practices come into being or why, but once established they are self perpetuating.
16.13%
 5 16.13%
Other, please elaborate.
12.90%
 4 12.90%
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What is a 'god'? A poll for anyone with an opinion about what all the fuss is about.
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RE: What is a 'god'? A poll for anyone with an opinion about what all the fuss is about.
March 1, 2014 at 1:41 pm (This post was last modified: March 1, 2014 at 1:44 pm by Whateverist.)
Interesting to me that the first choice as stated hasn't drawn any votes at all, in spite of posting the poll here in the Christian sub-forum.
(March 1, 2014 at 1:02 pm)xpastor Wrote: Early man had trouble thinking of causality except in terms of conscious agency. Yahweh or Zeus or whatever the local king of the gods might be called seemed to explain why the universe is so capricious, sometimes kicking us in the ass and sometimes giving us all that our hearts could desire.

So gods are basically us projecting onto unseen beings the intentions of ours which might lead us to inflict our fate onto others. That has a solid ring to it. Could be gold.
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RE: What is a 'god'? A poll for anyone with an opinion about what all the fuss is about. - by Whateverist - March 1, 2014 at 1:41 pm

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