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Showing posts with label Religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Religion. Show all posts
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Monday, October 26, 2009
Mythology II
For me the whole religion/god thing is an all or nothing deal.
I mean either everyone's god(s) exist or no one's god(s) exist.
A few basic premises (from my point of view):
First: the gods did not create us in their images. We create the gods in OUR image. Well, most of them anyhow.
Second: Gods have a life span (as do religions - but that's another thing altogether for another time). Look back through time. Take the caveman (or cave woman) sitting in the dark painting images of animals on the walls. I think the gods that are worshiped are born as simple things: woolly mammoths, wolves, clouds that create storms. They then begin to mature into animal-human hybrids (more animal than human), then they further evolve into human-animal hybrids (more human than animal). The next step is that they become entirely human (in form) and/or super-human (in size and abilities). The next step may be where we are right now: many of the old gods have been rolled up into one (or three) [at least in the Judeo-Christian-Muslim pantheons].
Third: I believe that the next evolution of gods is science. Scientists talk of finding a "god particle" and of over-arching theories that describe the universe (or multiverse) and its (their) internal workings. What difference is there between that and primitive man huddling in a cave trying to explain the thunder and lightning of the storm outside. I truly believe that religion and science will become one in the search for the creator(s); that string theory and tachyons and particle physics and quantum theory are the new gospels of an ever evolving religion.
Nuff said for now, methinks.
I mean either everyone's god(s) exist or no one's god(s) exist.
A few basic premises (from my point of view):
First: the gods did not create us in their images. We create the gods in OUR image. Well, most of them anyhow.
Second: Gods have a life span (as do religions - but that's another thing altogether for another time). Look back through time. Take the caveman (or cave woman) sitting in the dark painting images of animals on the walls. I think the gods that are worshiped are born as simple things: woolly mammoths, wolves, clouds that create storms. They then begin to mature into animal-human hybrids (more animal than human), then they further evolve into human-animal hybrids (more human than animal). The next step is that they become entirely human (in form) and/or super-human (in size and abilities). The next step may be where we are right now: many of the old gods have been rolled up into one (or three) [at least in the Judeo-Christian-Muslim pantheons].
Third: I believe that the next evolution of gods is science. Scientists talk of finding a "god particle" and of over-arching theories that describe the universe (or multiverse) and its (their) internal workings. What difference is there between that and primitive man huddling in a cave trying to explain the thunder and lightning of the storm outside. I truly believe that religion and science will become one in the search for the creator(s); that string theory and tachyons and particle physics and quantum theory are the new gospels of an ever evolving religion.
Nuff said for now, methinks.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Mythology
Why is your god real and theirs isn't?
If you were able to go back in time and ask an Egyptian from 5000 years ago, or a Roman living under Caesar Augustus or a Spartan if their gods and goddesses were real and actually influenced the world they would believe as strongly and argue just as hard as a current day Christian, Muslim or Hindu. We look back and name these older and extinct religions “Myths” and “Mythologies”. But, how do we know that they are not as valid (or as ridiculous) as any of the current religions on this planet? In another 1000 or 3000 years will that populace look back and consider the Christian faith or the Muslim beliefs to be mythologies and their various fables, stories and parables to be myths? Will the stories we tell now and the legends we currently hold become the new religions?
If you were able to go back in time and ask an Egyptian from 5000 years ago, or a Roman living under Caesar Augustus or a Spartan if their gods and goddesses were real and actually influenced the world they would believe as strongly and argue just as hard as a current day Christian, Muslim or Hindu. We look back and name these older and extinct religions “Myths” and “Mythologies”. But, how do we know that they are not as valid (or as ridiculous) as any of the current religions on this planet? In another 1000 or 3000 years will that populace look back and consider the Christian faith or the Muslim beliefs to be mythologies and their various fables, stories and parables to be myths? Will the stories we tell now and the legends we currently hold become the new religions?
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