Nature comes first

[fredd bear]

Yep. That realisation led me to look much more critically at  the "god is an alien" nonsense . I must have read dozens of those books in the 70's.  A waste? Not al all, all attempts to learn are worth while, some more so than others.

My all time favourite graffito;

"Religion: Man's attempt to communicate with the weather"

I -love- that sort of shit.  It's wrong, but it's instructive in that it provides a window, by creating a new theology in real time, on how the old theology was likely created.

 I loved it for a long time.  After reading quite a few of those books I noticed the authors began quoting each other.

I recently came across a convinced Ufologist. Oh dear, like trying to have rational conversation with a Christian apologist; impervious to  reason or scholarly method. (probably not the case with all  apologists,  just the one's I've I've run across in the last 40 years or so)

As you are interested in the process, I highly recommend 'New Heaven New Earth'  by Kenhelm Burridge.  He examines the process of the growth of millennial movements; the stages are actually predictable. Cheap at Amazon, possibly cheaper as an E book, even cheaper second hand. I studied this book as part of a university course in Anthropology. I think it's excellent.


ADDENDUM; Just thought of this; Christianity is a failed millennial movement. Jesus' disciples expected Jesus to return, and with him, the new millennium, within their lifetime. Christians are still waiting for the second coming.