Posted on 04/07/2020 9:35:38 AM PDT by rktman
A statement widely attributed to the great British thinker G. K. Chesterton describes the modern period as perfectly as any single idea can: "When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything."
One of these substitute gods has been nature.
Indeed, of all the false gods, nature is probably the most natural for people to worship. Every religion prior to the Bible had nature-gods – the sun, the moon, the sea, gods of fertility, gods of rain and so on.
That is why the further Western society gets from biblical, i.e., Judeo-Christian, religions, the more nature is worshiped.
Everyone on the left and right cares about the environment. But caring about the environment is not the same as environmentalism. Environmentalism, for most of its adherents, is a secular religion. These people, many of whom refer to, and truly regard, the Earth as a goddess (Gaia, the name of the ancient Greek Earth goddess) worship the environment.
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The answer is blowing in the wind.
The existence of polytheistic cultures does not "demonstrably disprove" that there is only one God, any more than the existence of dog-worshippers proves that my dachshund is the Creator of heaven and earth.
:-)
Their existence disproves Chesterton's nonsense statement. The ancient Greeks did not believe in a singular god, yet they believed in many things that contributed to our society.
Like abortion, right? Only in their case it was the father who could unilaterally order that the infant be "exposed" after it was born.
Your second statement is self-contradictory.
If there IS only one God, there cannot be any other one to pick.
So it is meaningless to speak of "picking the right one."
Smug condescension FAIL.
IF being operative word.
there cannot be any other one to pick.
You guys are hysterical. I always laugh when a Christian tells me he's a monotheist.
I laugh when an atheist ties his shoelaces together and trips over them.
“I *meant* to do that!” he says.
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