Weston Le Barre has a good angle on religion. I tend to agree. Certainly religion is man-made. Gods may be borne in the unconscious mind. And fashioned out of natural phenomena.
I also think gods were created (consciously or not) to fill the void that stands gaping at all of us. Faith begins where reason ends.
I always look forward to learning the In- prefix of Humanity with you, fascinating as always, thanks Paul but ugh.
“MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN thinkers had not stopped thinking.”
I am not certain they ever started but we define that act differently, obviously :).
Too often seminaries were/are cemeteries.
I look at all "Transcendental Temptations" (pace Paul Kurtz) given way to as trauma triggered substitutes for parents (pace Sigmund) and no one puts it better than Weston LaBarre:
"We see Ghosts dance because of specific universal experiences occurring in the development of the human animal. The context is the universally human nuclear family, the condition is individual human neoteny. At the base of every religion is the familial experience…. We are therefore gravely mistaken about the locus of the unknown. We have supposed it is outside us, in the not-self or cosmos, when indeed it is the equally unknown inner self—the personality that we project in our theologies. The Unknown is (unknowingly) inside each one of us. Gods are born in the individual's unconscious mind. Religion is what a man thinks and feels concerning this unique unknown, and what he does with his ignorance. A man’s religion is thus literally his character. God is the mirror of oneself. All that we say about ‘God’ as the Unknown is a statement of ignorance concerning our inner selves—an arrogance with grave moral consequence.”
Looking forward to the next statements of ignorance you have culled from hysterical history.
Query: did you not start up a chat group to discuss your posts?
Thanks for the comment Jack, appreciated.
Weston Le Barre has a good angle on religion. I tend to agree. Certainly religion is man-made. Gods may be borne in the unconscious mind. And fashioned out of natural phenomena.
I also think gods were created (consciously or not) to fill the void that stands gaping at all of us. Faith begins where reason ends.
Cheers
I always look forward to learning the In- prefix of Humanity with you, fascinating as always, thanks Paul but ugh.
“MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN thinkers had not stopped thinking.”
I am not certain they ever started but we define that act differently, obviously :).
Too often seminaries were/are cemeteries.
I look at all "Transcendental Temptations" (pace Paul Kurtz) given way to as trauma triggered substitutes for parents (pace Sigmund) and no one puts it better than Weston LaBarre:
"We see Ghosts dance because of specific universal experiences occurring in the development of the human animal. The context is the universally human nuclear family, the condition is individual human neoteny. At the base of every religion is the familial experience…. We are therefore gravely mistaken about the locus of the unknown. We have supposed it is outside us, in the not-self or cosmos, when indeed it is the equally unknown inner self—the personality that we project in our theologies. The Unknown is (unknowingly) inside each one of us. Gods are born in the individual's unconscious mind. Religion is what a man thinks and feels concerning this unique unknown, and what he does with his ignorance. A man’s religion is thus literally his character. God is the mirror of oneself. All that we say about ‘God’ as the Unknown is a statement of ignorance concerning our inner selves—an arrogance with grave moral consequence.”
Looking forward to the next statements of ignorance you have culled from hysterical history.
Query: did you not start up a chat group to discuss your posts?