RE: Is God Perfact? How?
December 31, 2016 at 10:54 am
(This post was last modified: December 31, 2016 at 10:57 am by Brian37.)
They will come up with all sorts of excuses to call their claimed god "perfect".
But in the context of human history, there is a very real root to this idea and unfortunately Plato was the one to popularize that concept with his idea of "essence". His very fucked up theory was that if you simply thought about something you could come up with the "essence" of that thing. Like "essence of rabbit" or anything. Dawkins goes into much better detail as to why Plato really screwed up human thought by coming up with that concept in the opening of his book "The Greatest Show on Earth".
That idea of "essence" went on to infect politics and religion which is to me the root of utopia thought which is poison to humanity. It teaches us to chase unrealistic goals.
The truth is for our species, is there is no such thing as anything "perfect" outside our own perceptions and ideas and opinions. Reality is very messy.
But in the context of human history, there is a very real root to this idea and unfortunately Plato was the one to popularize that concept with his idea of "essence". His very fucked up theory was that if you simply thought about something you could come up with the "essence" of that thing. Like "essence of rabbit" or anything. Dawkins goes into much better detail as to why Plato really screwed up human thought by coming up with that concept in the opening of his book "The Greatest Show on Earth".
That idea of "essence" went on to infect politics and religion which is to me the root of utopia thought which is poison to humanity. It teaches us to chase unrealistic goals.
The truth is for our species, is there is no such thing as anything "perfect" outside our own perceptions and ideas and opinions. Reality is very messy.
