Sep. 20, 2022 12:52 am JST
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Jeremiah:
Made-up religions have man-made, humanish characters. Interesting how we want to make humans out to be gods rather than worshiping God ...
Karl Marx:
Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man – state, society.
Genesis 1:27
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him.
So all agree in that god is like man and man is like god. In other words, religious views reflect human society in which they come into to existance.
It's no accident that their god is like a powerful king in the religions developed in middle east, where powerful kindoms were norm from Mesopotamia to Egypt for thousands of years. Their god is an idealized image of their king.
And it's no accident that the image of gods developed in Japa is like confused political leaders, discussing forever what to do.
So thereupon the Heaven-Shining-Great-August-Deity, terrified at the sight, closed [behind her] the door of the Heavenly Rock-Dwelling, made it fast, and retired. Then the whole Plain of High Heaven was obscured and all the Central Land of Reed-Plains darkened. Owing to this, eternal night prevailed. Hereupon the voices of the myriad Deities were like unto the flies in the fifth moon as they swarmed, and a myriad portents of woe all arose. Therefore did the eight hundred myriad Deities assemble in a divine assembly in the bed of the Tranquil River of Heaven, and bid the Deity Thought-Includer, child of the High-August-Producing-Wondrous-Deity think of a plan... (Kojiki, or "Record of Ancient Matter")
Here in ancient Japan, the image of divine was not an all-knowing, all-powerful king but countless gods in an assembly discussing a plan to solve the problem.
