Not the other way around
Discuss
Edit. Blah i thought i invented a witty new saying that reflects the truth, but apparently some guy invented that already in 1841
Not the other way around
Discuss
Edit. Blah i thought i invented a witty new saying that reflects the truth, but apparently some guy invented that already in 1841
What guy?
Have you just discovered Feuerbach? There's a book by this title which is in my to be read pile which I'm planning to read next, I bought it for the chapter on Erich Fromm but its also got chapters on Freud too.
In some ways it is true, this is how people mistakenly perceive God, then having only ever known that mistaken perception its easy to abandon that and in the process feel the new found atheism is so much more enlightened and clever.
That feuerbach guy. I decided to google "man created god in his own image" after creating this topic and found out about the guy and his book. First time i even heard his name.
Anyways i think if you are atheist, its important to find alternative ways to become conscious of your unconscious or to have some link with your unconsciousness. If you are too ego centered and cant do that, its better to just believe in god, that is if your religious beliefs arent effecting other people.
The Bible says man was created in God's image.
:Anyway, I think anyone, religious or not, should be aware of the role of the unconscious and seek to exercise self-analysis, its one of four or five things which Erich Fromm identified as keys to dealing with the average character neurosis (you've got to understand with Fromm he thought everyone was more or less neurotic, more or less disordered because of the psychological compromises they would be compelled to make to live in the families and societies which shaped them).
Not the other way around
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Edit. Blah i thought i invented a witty new saying that reflects the truth, but apparently some guy invented that already in 1841
God, I am told, is ineffable. So we ourselves, even Nerd Girl and Victor, are ineffable as well.
Assume, for the sake of argument, there is a God. Assume, also, that he is as omniponent and wonderful and transcendent and infinite as most believers claim him to be. How are we simple, limited mortals to comprehend this magnificence? We can't, of course, at least not in our earthly lives. In our attempt to understand something, to relate to something, to describe something in our human languages and symbols, we resort to what we know best: ourselves. We necessarily anthropomorphize deity, thus creating God in our own image. Male and female we create them, just as the God of the Bible created us.Man created God in his own image.
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Assume, for the sake of argument, there is a God. Assume, also, that he is as omniponent and wonderful and transcendent and infinite as most believers claim him to be. How are we simple, limited mortals to comprehend this magnificence? We can't, of course, at least not in our earthly lives. In our attempt to understand something, to relate to something, to describe something in our human languages and symbols, we resort to what we know best: ourselves. We necessarily anthropomorphize deity, thus creating God in our own image. Male and female we create them, just as the God of the Bible created us.
This part is critical. Once we think our image of God really is God in his entirety, it makes it easy if not essential to discount other perspectives. Each believer has some idea of what God is like, but this idea is not God, and probably has much less fidelity than Magritte's painting.i find it somewhat bizarre that people seriously attempt to conceptualize what may come after death or what may be larger than us, much less the largest thing in the universe. even if there is a magnificent divine being, what makes us think we have proper facilities to really even begin to understand it? i think it's reasonable to try to understand via concepts we know but we ought to be aware it's not the same.
It sounds like something an atheist might say.
The Bible says man was created in God's image.
Assume, for the sake of argument, there is a God. Assume, also, that he is as omniponent and wonderful and transcendent and infinite as most believers claim him to be. How are we simple, limited mortals to comprehend this magnificence? We can't, of course, at least not in our earthly lives. In our attempt to understand something, to relate to something, to describe something in our human languages and symbols, we resort to what we know best: ourselves. We necessarily anthropomorphize deity, thus creating God in our own image. Male and female we create them, just as the God of the Bible created us.
It sounds like something an atheist might say.
The Bible says man was created in God's image.
Assume, for the sake of argument, there is a God. Assume, also, that he is as omniponent and wonderful and transcendent and infinite as most believers claim him to be. How are we simple, limited mortals to comprehend this magnificence? We can't, of course, at least not in our earthly lives. In our attempt to understand something, to relate to something, to describe something in our human languages and symbols, we resort to what we know best: ourselves. We necessarily anthropomorphize deity, thus creating God in our own image. Male and female we create them, just as the God of the Bible created us.