(March 23, 2018 at 11:49 pm)ignoramus Wrote: Guys, been thinking. (Nah, not really).
Did man create God(s) as an evolutionary coping mechanism?
Throughout history, do you think the God(s) present and past have had a total net sum positive effect on our species as a whole?
OK, a lot of people were killed through superstition and ignorance. We cannot blame the God characters entirely for this as woo has been part of our evolution from the start.
It is really only relatively recently that science has been able to dissolve most woo with better, more effective answers to "mysterious" questions.
Maybe without our God crutches, we wouldn't be here today?
Maybe God is a necessary evil? (pardon the pun) we needed to get to this point.
But my real question, is have we as a species matured enough to confidently say that the crutch is not needed anymore?
Considering human greed, etc, and the % of suffering in the world, I'd say God is needed more than ever? Ironical isn't it.
Just the effort expended in Christianity's tens of thousands of schisms by itself is a huge waste. Jesus inflicted a bewildering and confusing witches brew of mish mash and folderol. The efforts could have been almost infinitely more usefully and efficiently utilized.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
