(William Wingstedt)
} } }What I don't get about these religions is, why do their gods needs so }much help? I figure that if a god wants somebody dead, let it do it, }certainly it has the power, doesn't it?. Why must it engage humans in }its dirty work? It just goes to show that every action this god }character has attributed to it, is indistinguishable from inaction, }and in this case, it seems that people derive some sick pleasure out }of killing other people, and excuse it by explaining that they are the }agents of their gods. I am not in favor of this sort of god. If I }believed in it, I would not worship it. As I design my god, I would }have it only do good and positive things. It would, for instance, upon }noticing that some of its creations were doing bad things, change }them, have them do good things instead and, make what bad they had }done as if it never was. That would be the sort of awesomeness I would }expect from any gods I might entertain my delusions with. But a god }that expects me to kill people for it? No thanks. That's just not the }sort of god I'd be interested in believing in. I'll be content not to }believe in gods at all, especially because it might distract me from }what has become an increasingly arduous task, protecting myself from }other peoples poorly designed deities and their misguided beliefs in }them... }
People get the god-s they deserve? Remember that these gods have been useful and instrumental in one group uniting and then being able to conquer other group and thereby ensuring their success as a tribe-race-what-have-you (not to mention that particular meme spreads as well). Religions and gods have always played this useful role in human societies and when a society starts to discard these entirely it opens the doors for other cultures-groups to move in and take over. This is what we are seeing with the West were it slowly dismantles its deities and religions along with its traditions leading to a fading of group idenbreasty and population. What inevitably fills this vacuum is another group with a strong idenbreasty and bond such as Islam.
