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Why did we stop inventing gods?
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Why did we stop inventing gods?
Why did we stop inventing gods?
 
The ancients were quite good at inventing new gods. The bible shows that the Jews invented many gods before deciding that god could not be defined and settled for “I am“, as the greatest expression of god. “I am” as spoken as a man.
 

 
Jews, in their oral tradition, gave man the last word in what god and his policies were to be. They accepted that the man they chose as head Rabbi of their Divine council had the power to overrule their written tradition. Man’s words, not an imaginary god, had the final say on policy. Man was supreme and not one of the imaginary gods.
 
Christianity then changed much of the morals and policies of their newly invented god, Yahweh, and also transferred the power of god to a man. Jesus. Jesus was now placed at the power seat at the right hand of his newly invented god and placed Yahweh in the right hemisphere of the brain, as shown in the art of the day as depicted by Michelangelo in his creation painting in the Vatican.
 
Islam then invented Allah, and so far, rightfully named him the last god to be invented. Foolish but true to date.
 
I see that search for a god as a search for the best laws and rules to live life by. After all, we cannot follow an imaginary god and can only follow the laws and rules that those imaginary gods has spoken, recognizing of course, that only a person can speak those laws and rules and that it was really a wise person who was uttering those words.
 
Gnostic Christians always saw those invented gods, specifically Yahweh, Jesus and Allah, as immoral and not worthy of us and that is why they named those gods as immoral and vile demiurges. This is not to say that those demiurges did not have some good policies but only says that a better god could and should be invented. Gnostic Christianity lost the god wars and was decimated the moment Christianity gained political power which they used to end freedom of religion.
 
Are immoral demiurges like Yahweh, Jesus and Allah, the best that mankind can come up with?
 
Why do you think we stopped inventing gods and settled for demonstrably immoral ones?
 
Regards
DL
 
P.S. Gods are the opium of the people.
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#2
RE: Why did we stop inventing gods?
Why make up a god to explain the mysteries of our world, when we can really find the answers through science? We don't need gods to be placeholders for knowledge anymore.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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RE: Why did we stop inventing gods?
Before the age of global travel, gods were local to individual communities. Perhaps gods are a victim of globalization?
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RE: Why did we stop inventing gods?
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RE: Why did we stop inventing gods?
Scientology? Bahai? Mormon (god with a twist)? Eckankar? Heavens Gate?

Does not appears that it has stopped. Slowed?
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
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RE: Why did we stop inventing gods?
(August 13, 2016 at 12:43 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Scientology? Bahai? Mormon (god with a twist)? Eckankar? Heavens Gate?

Does not appears that it has stopped. Slowed?

Oh yea. There are new or recent strains of religions cropping up. They're just not taken very seriously by the overall community. Then again, most religions start as little cults that spread out into a culture.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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RE: Why did we stop inventing gods?
(August 13, 2016 at 12:43 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Scientology? Bahai? Mormon (god with a twist)? Eckankar? Heavens Gate?

Does not appears that it has stopped. Slowed?

Scientology?
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RE: Why did we stop inventing gods?
(August 13, 2016 at 1:48 pm)LastPoet Wrote:
(August 13, 2016 at 12:43 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Scientology? Bahai? Mormon (god with a twist)? Eckankar? Heavens Gate?

Does not appears that it has stopped. Slowed?

Scientology?

The whole Xenu shtick.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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#9
RE: Why did we stop inventing gods?
Gods are an attempt to explain the way the world wags and what wags it. The more we understand about the world around us, the less need we have for godistic [like that word? I just made it up] 'explanations'; Thor's chariot no longer makes thunder, Zeus is no longer the hurling of lightning bolts, and Ceres no longer demands blood sacrifice to ensure a good harvest.

In short, the bottom has dropped out of the gods market.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#10
RE: Why did we stop inventing gods?
We found out we couldn't disprove Rob. Now, anything else is just a popcorn fart.
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
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