(September 26, 2008 at 11:41 am)starbucks Wrote: But at the same time do you ever wonder that IF indeed it is just a reaction to want to believe in a god, why?
If something DOESN'T exist, how would our mind even know to think of it? Unless it revealed itself to us be it directly/indirectly so that we may start thinking about it.
I'm sorry, I don't follow the point. We clearly imagine all kinds of things, like elves that leave presents under trees and fairies that take teeth and leave money under pillows and <GASP> butt probing space aliens. And that is just the tip of the iceberg. It seems you are saying nothing we conceptualize can possibly be a total fabrication. I have no idea why you would think that is the case. I must have misunderstood.
Maybe you are asking, whay should we have this inherent need to believe in a God. Well there are all kinds of reasons, but the big one one is to explain what happens when we die in a reassuring way. There's reincarnation, but it does not alone explain how everything came about. So believing in a creator and heaven kills two birds with one stone. But it is a trick of the mind to think it makes sense for God to have been around to make us, without wondering who created God or who created whoever created God and so on. It is a placebo for the the primitive mind.
