I often refer to God as an abstraction of human ignorance. What does that really mean, though? If you take the concept of God and you try to dig into where the basic idea comes from, you will end up at questions. Hidden in the language of Christianity is a clue to this origination. Religions all claim to have an answer. In Christian faith, you will hear believers say that Jesus is the answer. Well, the answer to what exactly? Does two plus two equal Jesus? Obviously not, but if you look deeper you will see that the answer provided is not really an answer, but a substitution for an answer to an unknown. Most of these questions from which religious faith originate are surrounding things we do not yet possess the knowledge to adequately understand. Questions like, what happens when we die, or where did all of this come from? Our cultures throughout history have recorded many varying mythologies to fill these gaps in our collective knowledge, each of them as made up as the next, and all of them underscoring a common theme of dealing with human insecurities over mortality. Most religions have a version of an afterlife or an answer for this unnerving question. Because of our ignorance, we make up answers which allow people to trick themselves into the concept of a hereafter. None of them are actually answering anything, but rather masking an unanswered question as dogmatic truth or juxtaposed wisdom. No matter how you look at it, in the end, the very concept of God is born of our ignorance of things we have not yet come to understand.
Posted on: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 09:36:51 +0000
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