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God is a person created by people or is an emotional act created be people to self govern ourselves into not destroying ourselves. Similar to acts of looking left and right while crossing a road created by experience gained from others in a similar way monkeys learn to crack nuts from other monkeys.
God is ... created be people to self govern ourselves into not destroying ourselves.
Similar to...
Similarly to how we now have speed and red light cameras looking down on us from above.
Having actual live policemen at each intersection doesn't do nearly as good a job...
nor does that come anywhere close to the revenue now generated.
The only thing better is self regulation through fear of the bogeyman.
Of course god(s) are man made, and if you put yourself in the place of the ancient people that made them up it makes sense.
Man understood literally nothing about the reality of the real world; why the sun rose an set, weather events, disease, death, etc. And there was a great deal to be afraid of and no knowledge to combat the fear.
Thus "things" that controlled these unknown forces were thought up, and they became gods.
Today we understand most of the things that scared our early ancestors, and now fear the gods that were created to explain the unknowns, which is the ultimate is mindless stupidity.
While there is a lot of talk about 'God' as being a sort of vague idea about a cosmic reality linked with First cause reasoning (I'm being polite, here ) that is a quite different argument from the man - made gods and religions.
Cosmic sortagod is what we know nothing about about -not even whether it amounts to anything deserving the 'God' label. The various specific gods that are attached to the various religions, we can know something about - that they have every appearance of being man - made, human inventions and false.
God is a person created by people or is an emotional act created be people to self govern ourselves into not destroying ourselves. Similar to acts of looking left and right while crossing a road created by experience gained from others in a similar way monkeys learn to crack nuts from other monkeys.
It's a bit more complicated than that. Religion is a crude tool for "connecting the dots" and coming to a working understanding of life and one's place within it.
Science is actually the evolution of that tendency and seeks to fill the same psychological need, just in a different way... if religion was a hatchet, science is a chainsaw, though both are for cutting down trees.
God is a person created by people or is an emotional act created be people to self govern ourselves into not destroying ourselves. Similar to acts of looking left and right while crossing a road created by experience gained from others in a similar way monkeys learn to crack nuts from other monkeys.
Don't agree - religion is politics - it's all about getting someone to believe certain things so you can control them...no one creates God - same as humans did not create the eternal universe. AND if you believe that God is a person - you have not done much thinking about what God or all of creation is - God is NOT a human being - nor has the atributes of a common human - It is beyond comprehension..and is to be respected as such - what human beings did to attempt to explain what God is - has always been the bain of the human experience...we just can't do it...so why bother - but as you have done - You humanize the whole concept in order to feel comfortable with something that is awesome and beyond belief.
Of course god(s) are man made, and if you put yourself in the place of the ancient people that made them up it makes sense.
Man understood literally nothing about the reality of the real world; why the sun rose an set, weather events, disease, death, etc. And there was a great deal to be afraid of and no knowledge to combat the fear.
Thus "things" that controlled these unknown forces were thought up, and they became gods.
Today we understand most of the things that scared our early ancestors, and now fear the gods that were created to explain the unknowns, which is the ultimate is mindless stupidity.
Aaaaahhhh... Yes. And, if one does a little research into the oldest civilization known, one learns that rulers were appointed by GOD. There was even a test by which one would prove being fit to rule. That was thousands of years before the ancient Hebrews came along. Before the Flood. Before kingship followed the blood line.Guess they invented someone to tap a guy on the shoulder and tell him he was the new ruler, huh? And, every year, the king had to prove he was still fit to rule.
Don't agree - religion is politics - it's all about getting someone to believe certain things so you can control them...no one creates God - same as humans did not create the eternal universe. AND if you believe that God is a person - you have not done much thinking about what God or all of creation is - God is NOT a human being - nor has the atributes of a common human - It is beyond comprehension..and is to be respected as such - what human beings did to attempt to explain what God is - has always been the bain of the human experience...we just can't do it...so why bother - but as you have done - You humanize the whole concept in order to feel comfortable with something that is awesome and beyond belief.
I agree. If we call that 'Nature' and 'God' is reserved for the anthropomorphic creation of human - devised religion that we won't get confused.
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) that is a quite different argument from the man - made gods and religions. 
