Post by Dragon*of*Heaven on Jul 22, 2005 18:47:48 GMT -5
I was having a talk with one of my friends and I came upon a quandary. Doesn't the God of the Christians, Jewish, and Catholics seem a bit childish (not childlike) in both its creation and its doings. For a God who created all humans in his image, doesn't the God of the Christan, Jewish, and Catholic faiths seem to lack human quality's. Unlike the other Gods I feel that this God lacks substance.
For example the Roman God Zeus was a Womanizer, adulator, and by today's standers a repeated sex offender. The God Set of the Egyptian killed his brother Osiris hacked him into little pieces and dumped him in the river out of jealously. Loki a God of the Norse Played so many pranks ranging from just run of the mill to murderous. Though all of these Gods were different in so many ways it cannot be denied that they all had something about them that seemed human. Personally I feel as if i could connect better with them.
Then when we look at the God of the Christian, Jewish, and Catholic faiths I cannot seem to find any humanity in it. Also to me it seems like a child thought of the idea. I mean a child cannot make certain connections when bringing up an idea either because of inexperience or just childish whim. If you look at the God of these religions it has the same feeling as a story written by a child. Many things don't fall into place. For instance the God is all powerful. If you have ever told the story's of this God to a child, the child can believe it without objection because children don't automatically look for the reasonable (neither do some grownups). To them an all powerful deity is ok becuase they don't really try to make the connections.
To prove the childishness of this God furthers one could take a child, your average devout Christian, Jew, or Catholic (adult), and a Darwinist. Subject the child to the question why on something that they know about. Then the Christian on their faith with the same question why. And finally to the Darwinist keep asking why's about evolution.I'm sure you will find a similarity in how the God believer and the child react while with the Darwinist you will find that he should come to a reasonable out come where the question of why becomes unimportant.
I would love any thoughts on this matter
For example the Roman God Zeus was a Womanizer, adulator, and by today's standers a repeated sex offender. The God Set of the Egyptian killed his brother Osiris hacked him into little pieces and dumped him in the river out of jealously. Loki a God of the Norse Played so many pranks ranging from just run of the mill to murderous. Though all of these Gods were different in so many ways it cannot be denied that they all had something about them that seemed human. Personally I feel as if i could connect better with them.
Then when we look at the God of the Christian, Jewish, and Catholic faiths I cannot seem to find any humanity in it. Also to me it seems like a child thought of the idea. I mean a child cannot make certain connections when bringing up an idea either because of inexperience or just childish whim. If you look at the God of these religions it has the same feeling as a story written by a child. Many things don't fall into place. For instance the God is all powerful. If you have ever told the story's of this God to a child, the child can believe it without objection because children don't automatically look for the reasonable (neither do some grownups). To them an all powerful deity is ok becuase they don't really try to make the connections.
To prove the childishness of this God furthers one could take a child, your average devout Christian, Jew, or Catholic (adult), and a Darwinist. Subject the child to the question why on something that they know about. Then the Christian on their faith with the same question why. And finally to the Darwinist keep asking why's about evolution.I'm sure you will find a similarity in how the God believer and the child react while with the Darwinist you will find that he should come to a reasonable out come where the question of why becomes unimportant.
I would love any thoughts on this matter
