02.07.11

Idolatry and the ‘god’ concept

Posted in General at 1:22 pm by nemo

http://history-and-evolution.com/whee4th/chap7_1.htm

The concept of ‘god’ has actually wrecked the original vision of monotheism before monotheism.
Face it: the ‘god’ obsession is the last remnant of the pagan idolatry Axial monotheism intended to uproot.

A Higher Power Acting Through History It is almost egregious to throw our data into the grabbag of ‘self-organization’. The eonic effect fills us with a sense of an almost ominous presence, of a mysterious process or action operating throughout history as a higher power. We see fine-tuning down to the level of poetic meters and even the whole genre Greek tragedy that might leave us floundering in design arguments. We need to realize that divinity would not act in this way. Conventional theism/atheism will not help us understand this situation.

In fact we have rediscovered, perhaps, the elemental sense of universal history first intuited by the Isrealites, pointing beyond god idols to IHVH, before that degenerated into monotheism. We have lost that tradition, and need to steer well clear of it. We cannot under any circumstance bring ‘god ideas’ to our depiction, at the risk of corrupting our clarity with the confusions of false design arguments. That would truly wreck our account. The same can be said of the sterile atheism based on the metaphyscis of Darwinian natural selection. The depiction of ‘evolution’ using systems analysis keeps our account honest.

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