RE: Do you think God is authoritarian?
December 7, 2023 at 5:51 pm
(This post was last modified: December 7, 2023 at 5:59 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The apologetic among us would like to insist that the christian god is very much that god - were that true...then the world we have and christianity as it is today is already a product of the god of classical theism. This..is what that looks like. Started authoritarian..and despite so much change since everywhere else, remains so.
It may be the case that theistic gods are authoritarian because this is their basic function to societies - before which we see no strong evidence of belief in any such type of god. That authoritarian societies, particularly early in world orders, by their nature outcompeted societies less rigidly organized - and so their gods survived as they did as other ideas about gods which lacked authoritarian content died as the other societies did. We can repeat this thought experiment for factions within societies and for sub sects within the same overall god tradition.
When it wasn't outright genocide and there's no real ambiguity, ofc.
It may be the case that theistic gods are authoritarian because this is their basic function to societies - before which we see no strong evidence of belief in any such type of god. That authoritarian societies, particularly early in world orders, by their nature outcompeted societies less rigidly organized - and so their gods survived as they did as other ideas about gods which lacked authoritarian content died as the other societies did. We can repeat this thought experiment for factions within societies and for sub sects within the same overall god tradition.
When it wasn't outright genocide and there's no real ambiguity, ofc.
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