(November 11, 2011 at 4:34 am)chadster1976 Wrote: Sorry. The point I was hoping you might deduce from this is that whether we are hard-wired or whether it is shared experiences (from my studies, I find both are clearly true), neither are evidence for or against the existence of God.
The shared experiences theory means that the ancestors of all peoples on earth once had lived together, in the same society, speaking one language and brought up in the same culture.
If you believe that as clearly true, then you have to accept as real the memories that survived from that remote past.
The rain gods and the thunder gods, the water gods, and what not, they are all inventions of the philosophers and theologians. In popular traditions the gods are people of a race who make love with people of another race. Common people were terrified of the gods they believed into because they were taught by their mothers that the gods were dishonest murderers and rapists.
Therefore, once you come to think of the gods of our ancestors as the immoral monsters they are reported to have been, you understand that the meaning of the term “god” somehow (it is known how, it is written in the texts) lost its original meaning and ended up meaning nothing.
There is no generation that was satisfied with the essence of the idea of the gods/God as it was handed down to them and thus the concept of God is constantly changing.
Going towards the future, the image of the God would keep changing. If a permanent image of God is required, that image exists only in the past.
The point is that when that god of the past is proven to be the real one, today’s and every tomorrow’s God is automatically revealed to be a fake one.
