The ancients were quite good at inventing new gods. The bible shows that the Jews invented many gods before deciding that god could not be defined and settled for “I am“, as the greatest expression of god. “I am” as spoken as a man.
Jews, in their oral tradition, gave man the last word in what god and his policies were to be. They accepted that the man they chose as head Rabbi of their Divine council had the power to overrule their written tradition. Man’s words, not an imaginary god, had the final say on policy. Man was supreme and not one of the imaginary gods.
Christianity then changed much of the morals and policies of their newly invented god, Yahweh, and also transferred the power of god to a man. Jesus. Jesus was now placed at the power seat at the right hand of his newly invented god and placed Yahweh in the right hemisphere of the brain, as shown in the art of the day as depicted by Michelangelo in his creation painting in the Vatican.
Islam then invented Allah, and so far, rightfully named him the last god to be invented. Foolish but true to date.
I see that search for a god as a search for the best laws and rules to live life by. After all, we cannot follow an imaginary god and can only follow the laws and rules that those imaginary gods has spoken, recognizing of course, that only a person can speak those laws and rules and that it was really a wise person who was uttering those words.
Gnostic Christians always saw those invented gods, specifically Yahweh, Jesus and Allah, as immoral and not worthy of us and that is why they named those gods as immoral and vile demiurges. This is not to say that those demiurges did not have some good policies but only says that a better god could and should be invented. Gnostic Christianity lost the god wars and was decimated the moment Christianity gained political power which they used to end freedom of religion.
Are immoral demiurges like Yahweh, Jesus and Allah, the best that mankind can come up with?
Why do you think we stopped inventing gods and settled for demonstrably immoral ones?
If A & E could and we see them as our archetypal parents, we should want to emulate them.
That may be wht the Jews see Eden as our place of elevation and not of our fall the way Christians do and did when they reversed the moral of that story and killed the wisdom of it.
People didn't stop. It's just that a religion that specifically says there is only one God and don't you f*cking dare even think otherwise..became the most dominant religion in the world.
What chances would a new god truly stand?
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We upgraded gods to men. We still deify them, we just like how we can see these ones.
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In a way we all have gods, all have something we worship, if not someone.
Take communism, especially in Russia back in the day. They didn't worship any gods or have a specific religion. However..in a way..communism WAS like a religion. Just the way they thought of it and of the importance of it, they were almost..reverent about it.
Or look at the nazi's. Some of the German people almost thought of Hitler as mythical. Their obsession with racial purity and superiority..they carried that obsession with a zeal not unlike that of which we see from actual religions.
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