RE: Is God a logical contradiction?
September 9, 2019 at 6:24 am
(This post was last modified: September 9, 2019 at 6:30 am by The Grand Nudger.)
It’s seems like we’re confusing archaeological evidence for religious beliefs with god’s pedigree. That would be an immense mistake.
100k ago we see burials. It’s not until 38k ago that we see zoomorphic ( and possibly anthropomorphic) figurines sometimes interpreted as god’s. Literal pink elephant territory.
35k ago we see people buried with “Venus figurines”....but the name suggests more than they imply.
Somewhere around 7k bc, the archaeligical record is littered with dildos and booby dolls, which probably wouldn’t suggest a devout believer in gods if we found them in your room today.
It’s only after that period that anything recognizably like a god pops up. 9k - 5k years ago. Not even close to how far back we can detect. A vanishing fraction.
Now, the sort of god you’re thinking if, Lek, is likely no older than you are. A pink elephant thats the contemporary incarnation of something that started out as a powerful ghost, became a member of a pantheon, shed the pantheon, and then shed it’s traditional attributes to fit your modern sensibilities.
One of my main points of criticism of god belief ( and the beliefs people have about god’s) is how woefully those beliefs misstate our origins, and their own....which is important for a factual and informative picture of human development.
That factual appraisal is inconvenient for the contention that god’s are as old as the hills, but the s the breaks.
100k ago we see burials. It’s not until 38k ago that we see zoomorphic ( and possibly anthropomorphic) figurines sometimes interpreted as god’s. Literal pink elephant territory.
35k ago we see people buried with “Venus figurines”....but the name suggests more than they imply.
Somewhere around 7k bc, the archaeligical record is littered with dildos and booby dolls, which probably wouldn’t suggest a devout believer in gods if we found them in your room today.
It’s only after that period that anything recognizably like a god pops up. 9k - 5k years ago. Not even close to how far back we can detect. A vanishing fraction.
Now, the sort of god you’re thinking if, Lek, is likely no older than you are. A pink elephant thats the contemporary incarnation of something that started out as a powerful ghost, became a member of a pantheon, shed the pantheon, and then shed it’s traditional attributes to fit your modern sensibilities.
One of my main points of criticism of god belief ( and the beliefs people have about god’s) is how woefully those beliefs misstate our origins, and their own....which is important for a factual and informative picture of human development.
That factual appraisal is inconvenient for the contention that god’s are as old as the hills, but the s the breaks.
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