(November 7, 2017 at 4:34 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Sorry, but the word 'god' has a lot of baggage associated with it, that being; supernatural powers, universe creating, miracle performing, etc. If you are going to redefine 'god' in such a way as to remove all that, to whatever I care most about, you have just castrated any meaning from the word.
None of that is true. Some societes worshipped their ancestors, some worshipped stone idols and didn't believe they created the universe or had much powers aside from representing an unseen form of hidden beings, but they considered them worthy of worship because they represented something.
And at truth is it, no one ever worshipped a fake mythology for the sake of the fake mythology, but love out of their fake leaders and that was love that stemmed out of selfishness to lower leadership and use religion as a means to deceive oneself will be safe and good in the next world.
We can't worship God for the sake of ourselves except we would be equating ourselves or even valuing ourselves above God. God doesn't forgive anything be associated with him in the level of highest value.
And if you think about, this unjust preference of ourselves is the source of injustice and imbalance in society. It makes the poor poor, wars, etc....
Cure that, and everything will be set. And the technology that would have ensued under the guidance of God's chosen ones would have been much better than what we have today and better used.
