Protestant churches are already atheist churches and they have always worshipped gold and silver rather than God.Will all religions disappear or will a new one replace them?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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJkNs512Lsk
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6uEMOeDZsA
I don't see modern man falling for another new religion. What I can see happening is a new church that is not Jewish Christian or Muslim. It doesn't claim a God visited. It studies all the ancient religions and simply believe that there must be a God and it would only preach love.
What I see replacing the present religions and appeasing our tribal natures will be atheist churches as we see them now starting already.
I also hope that my all inclusive and universal religion/theology/philosophy, Gnostic Christianity, become the one true religion that it was always destined to be.
It does not have faith that there is a god other than man. In that, it follows the thinking of the more intelligent ancient thinkers.
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What is God?
We do not preach only love although our preaching of hate is done out of love. We see a time to love and a time to hate. We hate evil and those religions like Christianity and Islam who preach evil, intolerance, homophobia and misogyny.
We live partly by this quote.
Proverbs 3:12 For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
That is why Christianity decimated us the moment they gained political power and also introduced the end of freedom of religion that persisted until secular law brought Christianity to heel. We will have to do the same thing with Islam. Through their reform or death.
We cannot let their immoral Jihad win.
Regards
DL