How in the hell is it that "man," which is a material being, beleives he is "made" in the image and likeness of a "God" that said "man" insists is an altogether immaterial being?
Is a tree made in the image of an immaterial archetype of a tree?
Are not archetypes themselves wholly man made cognitive concepts, which we then project into the mind of a divine intelligence, that we simply assume shares all of the same concepts of beauty, proportion, logic, morality, etc, as ourselves, but only with an infinitly perfected sense of such things, that we can only hope to gleam (if we are good, for goodness sake) upon the death of the material meat prison we are all born into called our human body?
That humanity stands today armed with ever increasing evidence, and from every field of study, of just how stupendously wrong we have been about virtually everything we have ever known, or thought we knew, or "believed" we knew, does not for a second dissuade us from our convictions that we who are alive today are, without a doubt, absolutely right in our ideas and "beliefs."
That we see all the previous generations that have come before us as flawed and foolish, in other words, never humbles us to consider how the many generations that will surely follow us (if we do not destroy the planet, that is, or we at least make it to another one) will surely see us in the same way, but probably even far more so.
And perhaps the first question those future generations will laughingly ask, and perhaps by none more so than adolescent school children a thousand years from now, will be how the hell humans thought they had been made in the "material" image of an "immaterial" God.
To which the third grade school teacher will smile and reply to those giggling school children that, despite their science and technology, all of their reason and art, and all their genius and invention, the people who lived in the world in 2017, a thousand years ago, only really ever worshipped themselves, in a projected image they collectively called "God."
In truth, the teacher will continue, "they learned no lessons from history but those that they could use to support their own "beliefs" and prejudices, their wars and their luxuries, their wealth and the poverty it necessarily depends upon and creates, because for all of their theologies and learning, all their sages and saints, and for all of the different names they have used throughout the centuries, mankind has only ever worshipped itself, even as they have only ever "believed" they were worshipping "god."
Man, in other words, has always been it's only god. God is dead, in this respect, because humans turned god from the forces all around them, into a personified image of themselves. And rather then respect those universal forces, all of which worked unanimously to create them over the course of limitless time, they sought to reason their way to an eternal "salvation,"even as they murdered the planet that bore them, and everything else on it.
Is a tree made in the image of an immaterial archetype of a tree?
Are not archetypes themselves wholly man made cognitive concepts, which we then project into the mind of a divine intelligence, that we simply assume shares all of the same concepts of beauty, proportion, logic, morality, etc, as ourselves, but only with an infinitly perfected sense of such things, that we can only hope to gleam (if we are good, for goodness sake) upon the death of the material meat prison we are all born into called our human body?
That humanity stands today armed with ever increasing evidence, and from every field of study, of just how stupendously wrong we have been about virtually everything we have ever known, or thought we knew, or "believed" we knew, does not for a second dissuade us from our convictions that we who are alive today are, without a doubt, absolutely right in our ideas and "beliefs."
That we see all the previous generations that have come before us as flawed and foolish, in other words, never humbles us to consider how the many generations that will surely follow us (if we do not destroy the planet, that is, or we at least make it to another one) will surely see us in the same way, but probably even far more so.
And perhaps the first question those future generations will laughingly ask, and perhaps by none more so than adolescent school children a thousand years from now, will be how the hell humans thought they had been made in the "material" image of an "immaterial" God.
To which the third grade school teacher will smile and reply to those giggling school children that, despite their science and technology, all of their reason and art, and all their genius and invention, the people who lived in the world in 2017, a thousand years ago, only really ever worshipped themselves, in a projected image they collectively called "God."
In truth, the teacher will continue, "they learned no lessons from history but those that they could use to support their own "beliefs" and prejudices, their wars and their luxuries, their wealth and the poverty it necessarily depends upon and creates, because for all of their theologies and learning, all their sages and saints, and for all of the different names they have used throughout the centuries, mankind has only ever worshipped itself, even as they have only ever "believed" they were worshipping "god."
Man, in other words, has always been it's only god. God is dead, in this respect, because humans turned god from the forces all around them, into a personified image of themselves. And rather then respect those universal forces, all of which worked unanimously to create them over the course of limitless time, they sought to reason their way to an eternal "salvation,"even as they murdered the planet that bore them, and everything else on it.
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