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Originally Posted by Lipslikewindows
"Regarding the post made by sonikjuice, it just sounds to me, as though a situation where people have to imagine a God into existence so as to make their existence bearable, is an intolerable and generally inconceivable situation"
Yep.
Again, why would the myth of God appear all over the world? At the same time (basically)? With no contact between most cultures?
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It isn't the myth of God it's the
myths of gods. All cultures don't beleive in one god. Many cultures believed in many god's that did not represent each other in other cultures.
Maybe if someone here was an anthropologist/theologist then maybe we could get some clearer perspective on this whole duscussion. I don't know why people believe in god even from a very ancient stand point, but by your logic, if people who believed in gods were correct, then there wouldn't be just one god, there would be literally thousands of gods. Every culture's religions would be correct. Their would be many gods of the harvest, of the rain, the sun, the earth, rocks, trees, everything would be represented by separate gods. I know that you believe in one God, the christian/jewish/muslim God Yahweh, but if all people who believed in god/gods were inspired by the divine then the heavens would be littered with many different gods. How come you dont belive in all those gods? Why do yuo rest your faith in just one? You have a veritable pick of the litter from which to choose yr deities.