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What is a 'god'? A poll for anyone with an opinion about what all the fuss is about.

Poll: What do you think gods are?
This poll is closed.
God is a being with awareness of others and of everything in the physical world which he himself brought into being. Literally.
3.23%
 1 3.23%
There is a propensity for people to attribute to God what is beyond their limited conscious mind, which lies hidden from them in the deeper levels of the unconscious mind.
12.90%
 4 12.90%
God is an artifact of early man's attempt to understand the world around him. Essentially God is a mistake in understanding and that is all.
29.03%
 9 29.03%
God is a kind of shared social hallucination. It is a form of insanity albeit a common one.
25.81%
 8 25.81%
Belief in gods is a social practice. The perception of a god is the result of a kind of group hypnosis. Who knows how social practices come into being or why, but once established they are self perpetuating.
16.13%
 5 16.13%
Other, please elaborate.
12.90%
 4 12.90%
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What is a 'god'? A poll for anyone with an opinion about what all the fuss is about.
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RE: What is a 'god'? A poll for anyone with an opinion about what all the fuss is about.
March 1, 2014 at 9:43 am
(March 1, 2014 at 4:04 am)Ryantology (╯°◊°)╯︵ ══╬ Wrote: To say that God was an attempt to learn about the world is giving too much credit, I think. God is an excuse not to learn about the world. God is the made-up answer to questions that can't be answered. Rather than a tool to aid in learning, it is a substitute for learning. When has the mythology of any god ever directly contributed to any actual knowledge, compared to the appalling number of times the mythology of gods has directly prevented or suppressed the acquisition of actual knowledge?

Right. So perhaps this choice could have been divided into these two:

1) God is the naive anthropomorphization of that which humans are unable to understand in any other way.

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2) God is the deliberate fabrication of a hoax 'answer' to 'explain' something that is simply not well understood.
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RE: What is a 'god'? A poll for anyone with an opinion about what all the fuss is about. - by Whateverist - March 1, 2014 at 9:43 am

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