(February 8, 2012 at 4:49 pm)Forsaken Wrote: Just wanted to share this with you...
" God is Man's response to a legacy of evolutionary discontent. The faculty of conceptual thought that raised Man above all other animal life was achieved only at the cost of a divided and tormented mind... Man's response to that awful burden of self-determination was to create for himself a god and to still his self doubts in the solace of religion".(p.1)
John M Allegro
Lost Gods
I'd say that it was the application of rationality combined with absence of knowledge that gave rise to the concept of god. Humans observed nature and understood the law of causality. Further, since they observed that in any actions undertaken by them they were the causal agents, they extrapolated it to everything else and assumed that any event occurring had a conscious causal agent behind it. When no knowledge of such obvious agency was forthcoming, they made one up.
What's sad is that the knowledge is no longer absent and still people cling to the made-up causal agency.
