God to me seems to be the term anxious humans use to explain what they are unable to.
Rather than simply acknowledging and accepting that there’s stuff we haven’t figured out yet and maybe are incapable of comprehending altogether because of our biologically limited perception, these anxious creatures have to resort to magical thinking, aka faith.
This would be all well and good, but some smart but terrible people long ago figured out a way to exploit this anxiety by claiming to know which version of God (ie: the unknown) was the real one (or ones).
Since faith by definition means belief without evidence (or belief with only evidence the faithful can perceive - lol), it was really easy to sell people on their version of God and then get the faithful to do all manner of crazy shit in defense of their beliefs.
Such is the nature of man, sadly. We are willing to wage war, elevate rulers, and sacrifice all manner of freedoms so long as we don’t have face the unknown or admit when we are wrong.
Pathetic really.
#grownostr
#thinkdangerously
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2024-03-23 14:35:34
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