Why did we stop inventing gods?

[Gnostic Christian Bishop]

Why did we stop inventing gods?


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?


Regards

DL


P.S. Gods are the opium of the people.

 

[Colonel]

There is enough God's being thrown around as it is.

P.S. Gods are the opium of the people.

I love that! This God business is a mental drug - makes people feel like their life has a deeper meaning/purpose.

 

[Gnostic Christian Bishop]

There is enough God's being thrown around as it is.

I love that! This God business is a mental drug - makes people feel like their life has a deeper meaning/purpose.

True. Aren't we all so special.

Regards
DL

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

The Tyranny of Misfits

Degenerate and pushy Eco-Eunuchs have made Nature an inviolable God. They are also infected with a submissive Death Wish doctrine that civilization must surrender to uncivilized groups. They have power far beyond their fringe-group numbers; they are a theocracy that must be overthrown.

 

[Gnostic Christian Bishop]

The Tyranny of Misfits

Degenerate and pushy Eco-Eunuchs have made Nature an inviolable God. They are also infected with a submissive Death Wish doctrine that civilization must surrender to uncivilized groups. They have power far beyond their fringe-group numbers; they are a theocracy that must be overthrown.

Get the climate change deniers after them. That should be a good fight.

Regards
DL

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Get the climate change deniers after them. That should be a good fight.

Regards
DL

Anything Worth Working for Is Worth Killing For

Vive La France for sinking Greenpeace's ship. The Japanese Navy, too, should use the anti-whalers as target practice. Lumberjacks should put their chainsaws to good use. Shrimpers should catch both turtles and Treehuggers in their nets.

 

[Gnostic Christian Bishop]

Thanks for showing how red your neck is.

Regards
DL

 

[PLC1]

NO need to invent new gods, just change the old ones to fit our biases. Take Jesus for example: If everyone were to live by the teachings of Jesus, we'd have peace and prosperity unprecedented in human history. But, living according to that philosophy is very difficult, so we need to change his teachings to something more palatable.

Gays, for example, are an abomination despite what Jesus said, which is really not much. Therefore, Christians can't accept homosexuality.

And if we're to go and kill people in foreign lands, we first must make up words that mean they aren't fully human. How else can Christians go and kill people? Onward, Christian soldiers!

and loving your neighbor is all fine and dandy so long as your neighbor is a fellow Christian.

No need to make up new gods. The old ones will tell us what we want to hear.

 

[Gnostic Christian Bishop]

NO need to invent new gods, just change the old ones to fit our biases. Take Jesus for example: If everyone were to live by the teachings of Jesus, we'd have peace and prosperity unprecedented in human history. But, living according to that philosophy is very difficult, so we need to change his teachings to something more palatable.

Gays, for example, are an abomination despite what Jesus said, which is really not much. Therefore, Christians can't accept homosexuality.

And if we're to go and kill people in foreign lands, we first must make up words that mean they aren't fully human. How else can Christians go and kill people? Onward, Christian soldiers!

and loving your neighbor is all fine and dandy so long as your neighbor is a fellow Christian.

No need to make up new gods. The old ones will tell us what we want to hear.

You see 20/20.

Islam is no more of a moral ideology than Christianity and at present are showing that they are not as adaptive as Christianity which the West has brought to heel.

Hard to say how many Muslims will have to die before tolerance becomes something they think about.

Regards
DL