(August 23, 2015 at 4:54 am)Whateverist the White Wrote:(August 23, 2015 at 4:25 am)pocaracas Wrote: I have a book called Anthropology of Religions, it's in Portuguese, by a Portuguese university professor and it seem fairly thorough...sadly,I haven't read the whole thing yet... It's not as easy to carry around like an epub.
This book should cover the appearance and establishment of individual religions in different parts of the world.
But my question to Randy goes beyond that. I'm trying to probe a believer in one particular religion on how come the deity of that religion allowed, or even supported, the sustained belief in other religions and deities. How does he explain that people were believing in other gods before his preferred one ever popped its head to say hi to humanity?
How did mankind come up with them?
Yeah he doesn't realize it but of course he doesn't have a leg to stand on. But I can't imagine he isn't well practiced dealing with cognitive dissonance. No conflict will ever lead him to rethink his favorite hypothesis. Well, maybe you'll provoke him to improve his theology at least but I doubt it.
If I have made him think about it, then my job is done!
The go-to answer I've gotten before had something to do with some holy spirit inspiring humanity... but human free will or local traditions got in the way and produced the wrong beliefs... all the while paving mankind for the upcoming attraction - god itself made man.
It's like this god couldn't have just done the job right from the get go.
