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Why don't more people grasp and accept the obvious about God/gods/deities? ~

The most logical and physically possible conclusion is not that living things and the natural world were created by one or more invisible divine beings, but that nature and living things, including humans, came into being and evolved into civilizations, which, in turn, gave rise to religious denominations. People, then, invented gods and the creation narrative to explain how everything came about.

This makes complete, logical sense. Who says no?
"R]eligion was the race's first (and worst) attempt to make sense of reality. It was the best the species could do at a time when we had no concept of physics, chemistry, biology or medicine. We did not know that we lived on a round planet, let alone that the said planet was in orbit in a minor and obscure solar system, which was also on the edge of an unimaginably vast cosmos that was exploding away from its original source of energy. We did not know that micro-organisms were so powerful and lived in our digestive systems in order to enable us to live, as well as mounting lethal attacks on us as parasites. We did not know of our close kinship with other animals. We believed that sprites, imps, demons, and djinns were hovering in the air about us. We imagined that thunder and lightning were portentous. It has taken us a long time to shrug off this heavy coat of ignorance and fear, and every time we do there are self-interested forces who want to compel us to put it back on again.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
@BlueSkyKing Reminds me of
[quote]Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [/quote]
That makes sense that people would try to invent Gods and creation. But for me there is one God that really does exist. And that's the Christian God. For me the Christian God is not a person or an invisible man in the Sky, it's a consciousness that was always in the Universe and that of which controls the universe. I don't know how it came about but I believe it used evolution to create mankind and living things etc. It's just how I see it and comprehend it
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I say no. Read the Bible with an open mind. I always hear liberals trying to convert people to atheism and it's bad for society
RedBaron · M
@Stargazer89 Reading with an open mind is what leads one to this logical conclusion. Reading it with closed minds is what religious people do.
@RedBaron wrong
RedBaron · M
@Stargazer89 In your opinion.
I really don't care what other people believe.
@Spoiledbrat It's really easier that way; not sure the author of the post has seen that.
@Spoiledbrat You might be lightyears beyond some here?
RedBaron · M
@thewindupbirdchronicles The author of the post is not sure you know what the author of the post has or has not seen.
pride49 · 31-35, M
I like to think black holes squeeze new big bangs into other voids creating new universes. Making existence infinite. Meh. I'm too tired to care atm
MartinII · 70-79, M
For various reasons, but the most obvious is that many people derive some comfort from believing in God or gods, or from belonging to communities which do so.
Dshhh · M
I am fully in agreement.
all the believers will say no
Zeusdelight · 61-69, M
@Dshhh Or more likely, the great majority will just let him have his view and silently agree to disagree.
Myth, superstition, system for controlling people; some mixture of all of these.
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only if you believe in them
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they are so proud of themselves
Zeusdelight · 61-69, M
Because a lot of people do not think like you do and see it that way.
Zeusdelight · 61-69, M
@RedBaron So you can't accept that others may have different views from you?
RedBaron · M
@Zeusdelight You think I am some kind of idiot? Learn to recognize a joke when it’s staring you in the face. My last post was a hint and a half.
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