In an earlier post I wrote:

Monotheistic religion is built around fear. There is no other reason to believe that an omnipotent being is tuned into everything you think and do, and, if He doesn’t like what He sees, He’ll happily sentence you to an eternity of torture.

Yet we need to take this in context.  In the early, pre-scientific days of the human species, we had people, very much like ourselves, who stood in stark terror of storms, disease, eclipses, and, most certainly, death itself.

We all sympathize with the earliest days of Homo sapiens, yet we’re less sympathetic of today’s radical fundamentalist Muslims and Christians.

As I wrote in the previous post, if we still have an organized society here in 100 years, we will have long since disposed of this stupidity.

The Evolution of God

What American writer Madeleine L’Engle (A Wrinkle in Time) said at left rings true to most educated people around the world.

Monotheistic religion is built around fear. There is no other reason to believe that an omnipotent being is tuned into everything you think and do, and, if He doesn’t like what He sees, will happily sentence you to an eternity of torture.

I seldom criticize others’ beliefs, but this is a concept unworthy of an intelligent species.

More to the point, we’re at a watershed point in human civilization.  So many of our planetary woes are built on the idea that my God in the sky is better than yours.

Let it be purged from humankind. If we still have an organized society here in 100 years, we will have long since disposed of this stupidity.

An Incredible Author’s View of God

I doubt it.

If there’s any take-away from the last 10 years, it’s that these people are not psychologically capable of questioning anything that comes out of Trump’s mouth.

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