Eternity (Origins)

by David Turell , Monday, November 25, 2013, 16:02 (4014 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: Yes indeed, the imagination is a great aid to opening up new insights. Some folk would even say that's how all the different gods came into being in the first place.-Karen Armstrong would disagree. She thinks we are built to be religious from the beginning. And humans in the Western world followed a progression from many gods to one God, as thought matured, and from a fierce God, to a loving God to a mysterious God as one went from the OT to the NT to the Quran. Even the stone-age native Americans had one God.The East ignoring the Hindu crowd of gods, settled on a more mysterious set of structures for their approach to devinity. But everyone except atheists and agnostics join in.