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"If a triangle could speak...it would say that God is eminently triangular." - Spinoza

Nice to see you're finally coming to the conclusion the so called "new Atheists" arrived at 15+ years ago....

we perceive God relative to our own way of thinking. same religion, different country, can make slightly different version of the same "God"

Did, and still are. It's a weird kind of ideological jujitsu; identify the values, then apply them to an idol to re-apply back to the people

Psychologically, humans just seem to respond to what they can't see or understand more strongly than what they can. It's why fear of the

Other still works politically, & is probably something hardwired in us that we haven't overcome (like beware of dark caves, there be bears).

But to take responsibility for our own values and morals is scarier still -- means losing the the liturgical crutch, and is a lot more work.

However, don't think that means religion is useless;