God is simply our mind, and our mind's projection of perfections, as only we seem them, of a gloried image of ourselves, cast in the role of an omnipotent God.
The sum total of our hopes and fears, in both our conscious and subconscious, are anthropomorphized into angles and demons, God and the devil. We incorporate our ideas into different "legal fictions," in other words, that we "believe" to be as real as the Supreme Court believes a corporation is a "legal person" and that a dollar bill is the same as a voting ballot.
In this sense, all of human history is simply the result of humanity understanding the world by looking in the mirror - and what we imagine ourselves to be.
The sum total of our hopes and fears, in both our conscious and subconscious, are anthropomorphized into angles and demons, God and the devil. We incorporate our ideas into different "legal fictions," in other words, that we "believe" to be as real as the Supreme Court believes a corporation is a "legal person" and that a dollar bill is the same as a voting ballot.
In this sense, all of human history is simply the result of humanity understanding the world by looking in the mirror - and what we imagine ourselves to be.
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