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In reply to the discussion: What's with the God fixation all of a sudden? [View all]Martin Eden
(14,818 posts)The monotheistic God is created in man's image -- an evolutionary progression from primitive societies believing in elemental powers, to the pantheon of deities before the Abrahamic religions supplanted them.
Being agnostic myself, I have no certainty as to whether a form of supernatural consciousness communicated to humans during the past, by means understandable to them. However, I am certain institutional religions became the means by which men motivated by wealth and power manipulated the masses to do their bidding.
I find more value in the spiritualism of Native American concept of Manitou, in which all things have a life force. They lived WITH nature and respected it, rather than ravage it as a commodity for short term profit.
If there is a supernatural being in this universe, I think it would judge Native American spiritualism as far superior.
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