Is God just an ego extension? (disciples, genesis, myths, church)

[AnywhereElse]

Oh, my gosh, no! I cannot imagine why anyone would think that. God is the "Father". Does the child see himself as an extension of the father?

[lawrence-law]

how do you know that you are not just creating this being in your imagination, as a way of helping to deal with reality?

[Bunjee]

Originally Posted by Shiloh1

God is an extension of ourselves but he is the ideal that is perfected and absolutized. As such this metaphysical concept grounds our subjective nature and gives it an objective 'reality' that extends beyond the self. This justifies our judgments regarding our own and others actions and explains certain unexplainable events in human existence. In fact the dialetic history of 'God' follows this narrowing pattern until 2,000 years after Christ Christian apologetics has been reduced to mere syllogisms proving God's existence with a-priori metaphysical abstractions that are epistemologically problematic.

But can you name a worldview that is not epistemologically problematic?

Originally Posted by Bunjee

But can you name a worldview that is not epistemologically problematic?

Materialism in general is far less problematic than metaphysical ones.

[Bunjee]

Originally Posted by Shiloh1

Materialism in general is far less problematic than metaphysical ones.

But epistemologically materialism is every bit as problematic. How do you say it's less so?

[lawrence-law]

at least it can be backed up by science.

hardly the same can be said about God.

Yep ^

The methodologies for showing either one are different in degree. It is far more convincing to show the reality of a physical object or phenomenon than some metaphysical concept like 'God.'

[L'Artiste]

No, because the devil would be a better extension of human ego

[lawrence-law]

The Devil/God - one and the same.

doesn't matter which 'god' it is.

It's still an ego extension.

[nezlie]

Freud regards God as an illusion, based on the infantile need for a powerful father figure; religion, necessary to help us restrain violent impulses earlier in the development of civilization, can now be set aside in favor of reason and science.[1] Freud and religion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

He is a projection for the ultimate father figure.