Did you know that Roman emperor could proclaim previous dead people as gods?
Does that make them gods? no
Does that make people accept them as gods? yes.
Oh... objection #"I don't know": if people have made up all the gods that have ever been worshiped, then why would yours be the special one that's real?
Take it home, Tim:
"Fuck me Sam, what are the odds
That of history's endless parade of gods
That the God you just happened to be taught to believe in
Is the actual God and he digs on healing,
But not the AIDS-ridden African nations
Nor the victims of the plague, nor the flood-addled Asians,
But healthy, privately-insured Australians
With common and curable lens degeneration"
Other: If humanity evolved and, in that process, created all kinds of abstract concepts, why couldn't the concept of a god have just been another human creation?
Or else: If there is an actual god, and it wants us humans to acknowledge its existence, then why is belief required? Why must we believe what we are told about that god? Why is what we are told about that god geographically dependent? Why is it that this geographical dependency accompany different tribal/societal influences? Why are the rules supposedly given by the god reflections of the societies where the god concept is taught?
Damn, I'm on a roll!
Other: Why don't followers of any particular religion acknowledge the gods followed by the people from other religions?
Other: Why don't followers of a particular religion ever acknowledge the full history behind their own mythology?
Other: Why are psychological events always discarded as the origin of a myth or part of a myth?
Other: Why can't believers ever realize their own bias? (this one works for most people, concerning anything they're biased to)
Does that make them gods? no
Does that make people accept them as gods? yes.
Oh... objection #"I don't know": if people have made up all the gods that have ever been worshiped, then why would yours be the special one that's real?
Take it home, Tim:
"Fuck me Sam, what are the odds
That of history's endless parade of gods
That the God you just happened to be taught to believe in
Is the actual God and he digs on healing,
But not the AIDS-ridden African nations
Nor the victims of the plague, nor the flood-addled Asians,
But healthy, privately-insured Australians
With common and curable lens degeneration"
Other: If humanity evolved and, in that process, created all kinds of abstract concepts, why couldn't the concept of a god have just been another human creation?
Or else: If there is an actual god, and it wants us humans to acknowledge its existence, then why is belief required? Why must we believe what we are told about that god? Why is what we are told about that god geographically dependent? Why is it that this geographical dependency accompany different tribal/societal influences? Why are the rules supposedly given by the god reflections of the societies where the god concept is taught?
Damn, I'm on a roll!
Other: Why don't followers of any particular religion acknowledge the gods followed by the people from other religions?
Other: Why don't followers of a particular religion ever acknowledge the full history behind their own mythology?
Other: Why are psychological events always discarded as the origin of a myth or part of a myth?
Other: Why can't believers ever realize their own bias? (this one works for most people, concerning anything they're biased to)
