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How and why can people ignore their God’s immoral ways?
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RE: How and why can people ignore their God’s immoral ways?
(November 19, 2017 at 6:26 pm)Greatest I am Wrote:
(November 19, 2017 at 6:07 pm)Khemikal Wrote: I think it's more accurate that you credit yourself with knowledge that amounts to little more than your own retconning opinions.  OFC the character of jesus was a "mental picture" in someone's mind..just not your mind..and not the mental picture you have in mind.  Like I said before...you could call your god Bob and it would be that much more accurate.

True. I was an atheist and did not even have a name for God when I had my apotheosis.

Seeking seemed to be enough without naming what I was seeking.

The ancients just used father which I guess is why Freud and Jung chose Father Complex for our internal and instinctual inner voice.

Regards
DL


See, if what you're calling God is analogous to what Freud and Jung thought was behind a father complex, then you're not communicating very clearly.  I think something like that is the best way to understand why god belief is widespread and why religion adds something people value to their lives.  That would make it more than a 'mistake' or an 'illusion', but it doesn't make it an external agent or creator of anything apart from our own minds.

Do you think 'god' is something intrapersonal as a product of the psyche or do you think it is something external with an existence apart from human beings?
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RE: How and why can people ignore their God’s immoral ways? - by Whateverist - November 19, 2017 at 7:46 pm

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