(March 30, 2016 at 12:10 pm)loganonekenobi Wrote: My idea is that people where prone to being superstitious because they didn't understand the world. A few clever folks used this to help them make claims of rulership and law. It is easier to get people to follow a god due to fear of its power of the unknown that it is to follow a man that is just as flesh and blood as they are.
The point to the theist is that it is just as likely that the god portrayed in the bible was simply such a tool.
Any help would be appreciated. I'm doing historical study of other cultures to find such similarities or differences.
Don't waste your time, you are not going to make the case that the God of the Bible was created as a support for any form of government. The Jews had Jewish monarchs in charge far less then they didn't (800 years between Abraham and the first king alone).
