(September 28, 2015 at 10:23 am)ApeNotKillApe Wrote:(September 28, 2015 at 9:26 am)Little Rik Wrote: It is well known that religions always act as mediators between God and the people in order to control the masses and profit but it can not be said that God does not exist.
Really? So Aztec and Mayan priests were sacrificing men and boys in the tens of thousands, engaging in cannibalism and offering gifts of blood to the sun as a way of mediating between the people and the one "God"? So were eclipses actually a response from God to the Mayans? Or was that a misconception? What about witch burnings? Or religiously mandated genocide? Why is it exclusively "God" that can't be said to not exist? Can't the same be said of Quetzalcoatl or Zeus or Ra or Nyarlathotep?
Religions vandalized the figure of an hypothetical God so it is more and more difficult for anyone to believe in God.
What does that even mean? Are you suggesting that the "One God" concept predates the polytheistic religions? The tribal gods? What about paleolithic spiritualism? The One God was around before that?
So the paleolithic hunter-gatherers who lived simple lives, ate berries, respected nature and all that, they were just spitting in God's face, right?
But the Tribal Death God who demands genocide and rape, who seals bargains with human sacrifice, that's the good one.
Considering the consistently horrendous stuff that religions all over the world engage in, I have to assume this God fellow is one evil bastard.
God never asked or authorized the priests to mediate.
Are the caste of priests that decided to become intermediaries.
God would never punish innocent people.
If you think that religions are following God you are miles and miles away from the truth.
When i say.........It is well known that religions always act as mediators between God and the people...... that doesn't mean that God gave the ok. for the religions to act on his name.