Guess Who Created God?

From the earliest instances of man's ability to communicate, references to spirits and unknown forces have been called gods. Qualities that man wished he had, have been attributed to "the gods." War, weather, natural disasters, deformed newborns, wicked people, good people, all have been thanked or damned as part of god's plan.

Because, at the dawn of civilization (cave dwellers through the 2nd century AD) there existed only the verbal and, infrequently cave carvings, as history of events like floods, earthquakes, sudden deaths, etc. (See the 30,000 year old cave carvings in France). Egyptian cuneiform attributes events to the wrath or goodness of the gods.

Individuals, families, tribes, villages, towns and nation states were mindful of these gods handed down to them over the ages. In the handing down of the myths of the power of the gods there was great imaginative license.

We have the "Virgin Mary", and man proclaimed it a miracle. We have hundreds of men decrying the unjust rule of the Romans and only one singled out as the Christ. Perhaps the reporters of the day could not bear to recount the characteristics and virtues or lack thereof for most of those crucified by the Romans that week, so they settled on who they considered the leader of the pack. His crew then seized the opportunity to use his death as a cause celebre... martyrdom. From that status, and the global ignorance of the masses, "Christianity spreads."

After all Christ was the "son" of "god." He rose from the dead. So says man. What a PR campaign that could Marshall. . (Therefore, his patrons who owned the garden of Gethsemane took him from his healing crypt and had him transported first to Egypt and then to what is now the eastern shore of Morocco. The Apostles were instructed to spread the Ascension myth to cover tracks on shipping Christ out of Judea..

There he and Mary Magdalen raised a large family. That family continues to be sheltered and financed by the Pope.

After all, man created god in the image of man. Not very imaginative. And this god has been depicted as a Caucasian, not African, Arabic, or swarthy Jew, but a Caucasian god. It's the same in China, Thailand, Africa, Indonesia, Mexico, Jamaica, and where ever skin color identifies culture and subcultures.

So we have gods who bless, gods who damn, gods who are vengeful, gods who are arbitrary, capricious and mean. Man has defined his gods as the situation requires.

However, the must important functions of these man-made gods are the following:

1. Instill fear and thereby control the ignorant and the naive,

2. Control other behaviors, like charitable instinct that makes Christianity and Judaism the richest corporate religions in the world.

3. Tell the ignorant that God's gift of free will places the onus for negative events on man not God. However, all the good stuff is due to God's love, and

4. Use the gods as crutches to avoid reality.

This is why I believe in me.