WE should care in life to get things right, or as right as we can . The man or people who created the god of Abraham supposed and assumed back then, that god feels, reacts and reasons the same way as we do . Like ourselves he is envious, jealous, curious, loving, vindictive, murderous or forgiving, cruel and brutal, in fact as his mood takes him, in a sense exactly like us .
But we never consider seriously that god has no one to envy, has no peers or competitors, no real reason to blame us the people bellow whom he created and gave them characters, nothing to forgive but what he created. God presumably created us, chose some of us, hated some others, he apparently continues to care for some , as he cares for ants and mosquitoes, albeit we keep attributing to him equal opportunities, and fatherly attitudes . How he juggles all his subjects and what criterions he follows remain a mystery to our limited brains.
He exists through shows of over confidence, illusions of comprehension, his hugely self-belief sense of righteousness , his omnipotence, omnipresence and omniscience do not match well his continuous sense of grievance at having been undervalued or replaced, do not match the original intended picture of a creator, nor his self appointed divine messianic promoters and followers .
This same creation, god, who loves and hates simultaneously, who is totally dependent on his creation's praise, while looking and considering them inferior and worthless, looking constantly for their flattery, false or true, is a clear sign of weakness, only worthy of low level sapiens and not what they themselves thought to empower their own divine creator with.
Authority, absolute leadership, self admiration, superiority and arrogant levels of self absorption , exploitation of others and wicked manipulation, are all sapien attributes, we shouldn't have given or passed to the divine back then or now , as passing to the gods, our own earthly attributes, we liberate them with freedoms from moral woes, flaws, remorse and worries. We turn them into extreme and unsatisfiable.
Theoretically all of the human race, but factually only a smaller part of humans share some traits of humility, congeniality, tenderness and an honest self-criticism, unlike all of our gods throughout history, and more so since the book of genesis, written by an Ezra around the Babylonian exile of the 6th century bce, created the god of Abraham, who brutally governed over some minor tribes for years. Hellenized Christians and later, Mohamedan Musslems , both inherited and adopted the book and its concepts of creation in their entirety.
Moral improvement of Homo Sapiens throughout history, was directly intertwined with the times of rapprocheman and convergence with god. Whenever men were closer to gods and in better relation and mirroring them, their morality degraded, they behaved with more immunity, like their god. It is unfortunately the traits of our times as well . Cruelty, sin, vengeance , vanity and false pride and superiority, were an inheritance we passed on to our gods, and we loved them for it, they returned it to us with supposed benediction and protection, and we loved them even more.
On a different note, more civilized countries all over the world nowadays are recognizing and updating their existing laws . Including here in the U.S. as Mr. Obama signed a week ago, amendments to a law recognizing non-theist groups and individuals, a long overdue step giving atheists and non-theistic communities the same protection and respect that have been given, or should I say accaparated, hogged and monopolized, by religious communities for long centuries .
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