Meriweather
Not all who wander are lost
- Oct 21, 2014
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Don't you understand that the men of that time were very uneducated, superstitious and curious? For thousands of years they debated this stuff. And what you wrote above was the best those guys could come up with. Today if we started all over, we would be asking the same questions but using science to find the answers, not some ancient made up holy books. You are no different than every other organized/made up religion that came before or after you. The Greeks were very devoted to their gods. Look at how much thought they put into gods. How many gods did they have? One for every occasion. Sort of like an Xman movie. So all this Divine Providence was initially made up and the people who swallowed it passed it on just like a parent passes on a bad genetic gene. Time to change.
If God is real then so is Zeus and the Wolverine because someone made them up in their head too. I even know what the Wolverine looks like.
A god for every occasion, a god for every individual is how ancient people perceived God. Then along comes Abraham (whose family is in the idol making business), and he realizes that there are not many gods for each, but one God of all. Mankind has always looked to the sciences for information as well. Thankfully, what they did not do is throw away all knowledge and wisdom that did not meet scientific method standards. I do not understand the fear some who love religion have of science. Nor do I understand the fear that some who love science have with religion.
At one time science was enthralled with trying to turn lead into gold, but additional information us away from this. Likewise, at one time belief in a god for every purpose/every person was once embraced...but additional information led us away from this as well.