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RE: Super God's Wager

in #religion2 years ago

This is interesting. I'm not sure if I've come across the Super God scenario before. Maybe this is original work. Most apologists I've seen just define God as the ultimate in all ways, always having been around with no need for a creator. Nothing is superior to this God. But I like the idea that they say we need a creator more complex than us, so why doesn't God also require that? Good point!

my thoughts lately lean more towards, why do people feel their God is real, rather than proving that He is or isn't real. After seeing a video, I read a book by John C. Wathey and I like his idea that we feel like there is a God because we had a god, our parents. Mom showed us unconditional love (ideally) and dad taught us what society demands of us, as a superficial summary of Wathey's work. I think we are primed to think about heaven and hell and god and demons from the universal experience of being born, which is kind of being cast out of paradise, a kind of death of a previous life where God, our mom, gave us everything we needed without condition. Same kinds of things happen in our first 2 years. We don't always see them but we know they are there. We beseech and supplicate by reaching out and crying and hoping that they are near and come back to fulfil our needs. Kind of like how adults pray to God and sometimes feel God is with them and other times not.

Anyway, too long of a comment already, so I'll just drop in a video of Wathey if anyone is interested. I wonder if you've heard of him, or this type of naturalistic explanation of religion. I think he picks off where Pascal Boyer left off, in his book Religion Explained.

Thanks for the thought provoking post!

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Thank you as well, for the thought provoking comment.