RE: Why, God? Why?!
February 13, 2018 at 4:12 pm
(This post was last modified: February 13, 2018 at 4:21 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
As a minor quip..it's meaningless to talk about "God" in a singular sense or insist that it must have specific attributes x to be acceptable -as- a god. There were goddesses. There were gods who were born. There were limited gods. There were causally ineffective gods. There were gods who existed as foils. There were gods who had no authority over men or who were incapable of enforcing whatever presumptions of authority they had. Gods were not always the "best qualities of men"..and some seemed to exist as explicit comments to the contrary. Some god's weren't anthropomorphized in the slightest. Further, there were communities that had no gods or had a novel interpretation of what a god was, fundamentally.
None of the attributes ascribed to any of them were necessary for the set, and the set itself was not a necessity. All of their attributes..however, were narrative necessities in the transmission of culture, and those attributes change even when the god in question doesn't....entirely predicate -on- a changing culture in the set of the faithful. People get hung up on the just-so stories of gods..and while these were absolutely ignorant attempts to explain natural phenomena or a state of affairs..the larger story of gods is a brilliant expose on humanity and the human condition. The judeo-christian faiths are, likely, the terminus of this narrative tradition. Representing the worst and most removed representation of gods as they pertain to their original subject. This is a consequence of the ever retreating veil of ignorance, of our finding better ways to express the concepts that gods were originally leveraged in elaboration of.
It's a story about us, not them, or why creeks run downhill.
None of the attributes ascribed to any of them were necessary for the set, and the set itself was not a necessity. All of their attributes..however, were narrative necessities in the transmission of culture, and those attributes change even when the god in question doesn't....entirely predicate -on- a changing culture in the set of the faithful. People get hung up on the just-so stories of gods..and while these were absolutely ignorant attempts to explain natural phenomena or a state of affairs..the larger story of gods is a brilliant expose on humanity and the human condition. The judeo-christian faiths are, likely, the terminus of this narrative tradition. Representing the worst and most removed representation of gods as they pertain to their original subject. This is a consequence of the ever retreating veil of ignorance, of our finding better ways to express the concepts that gods were originally leveraged in elaboration of.
It's a story about us, not them, or why creeks run downhill.
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