RE: Why are you chasing the idea of the existence of a God?
August 5, 2018 at 6:36 am
(This post was last modified: August 5, 2018 at 6:37 am by Aroura.)
No, what is innate is the desire, nay the need, to explain things. Humans are constantly seeking to discover how and why things work. God is/was simply an easy explanation when there isn't a better one at the time.
Why do we exist?
Why did my child die?
What are the sparkly points in the sky?
How did they get there?
Before we understood evolution, germs, astronomy, etc, God was an answer for all of this and much much more. Why are their floods? The Gods are angry. And so forth.
People do not automatically seek god. They automatically seek answers. And they tend to believe what they are told by adults and authority figures, a natural part of human psychology.
That's all there is to god. Just a need to explain everything when everything cannot be explained, and an evolutionary benefit to teaching/learning gone wrong.
Why do we exist?
Why did my child die?
What are the sparkly points in the sky?
How did they get there?
Before we understood evolution, germs, astronomy, etc, God was an answer for all of this and much much more. Why are their floods? The Gods are angry. And so forth.
People do not automatically seek god. They automatically seek answers. And they tend to believe what they are told by adults and authority figures, a natural part of human psychology.
That's all there is to god. Just a need to explain everything when everything cannot be explained, and an evolutionary benefit to teaching/learning gone wrong.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
