Christians and Muslims: Why do you deny Zeus?
Those who have not seen the light and built a home temple to the ALMIGHTY GOD ZEUS will soon feel his wrath. Zeus is the one true God, the Protector who will watch over you but only if you cast aside all others and turn to Him in thankfulness and supplication.
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Come to Him now because WHEN you get hit by one of his lightning bolts (and it WILL happen!) you WILL know the truth!
I’m being facetious of course.
I am an atheist but this is a challenge to believers of all kinds. Why DON’T you believe in Zeus or any of the thousands of other gods from the past? Please tell me the process by which you examined the faith of the ancient Greeks and decided to reject it.
If you can examine yourself and find the reasons why you feel that Zeus is not the god for you, or if you would even go so far as to say “He doesn’t exist” (Gasp! Please forgive them oh Wielder of Lighting Bolts!) then you have repeated some of the same process by which I turned my back on Catholicism and Christianity many years ago. You too are an atheist, as far as Zeus is concerned.
One of the greatest and most intellectual civilizations ever to be known accepted wholeheartedly the supremacy of Zeus. The innovations of the Greeks were immensely influential on language, politics, educational systems, philosophy, science, and the arts. They inspired the Islamic Golden Age and the Western European Renaissance! By rejecting the God of the Greeks are you saying that you are smarter than they? Do you know something the Greeks didn’t know?
Just because the stories of Zeus (all glory and power to Him) are from an ancient past doesn’t mean they are any less true. In fact, Zeus was around BEFORE your Jesus and your Muhammed. Those guys are newbies compared to The Almighty Zeus! So, explain yourselves Christians and Muslims. Why not Zeus?
Nik,
When I mentioned “unnatural events,” I meant that as how human brains at the time perceived them to be.
You make the argument that those who are spiritual must thus believe in “intelligent design” whereas I argue that that might not necessarily have to be the case.
As I mentioned, humans attribute meaning to the universe as a default of what we are. The human brain is, after all, a “meaning-making machine.” It does not necessarily have to follow that, because their is some meaning in the existence of the universe, and some people find that meaning to be something spiritual or “supernatural,” that the universe was therefore created by some man who sits in a cloud and wields thunderbolts.
True, that is what religion has always been. Humans have always created stories to attribute meaning and therefore “gods” were idealized. However, I think that they are all manifestations of the major ideal which involves spirituality embedded in the essential meaning of existence.
Mark, though I understand your point: that there are still things that the human mind has as yet been unable to grasp, it does not mean that we cannot.
Your example concerning the forces of the universe is a good one, but we have come a long way since Newton. I refer you to Einstein’s theory of gravitation, relativity, quantum mechanics. Humans are getting closer and closer to knowing more and more than we ever have before. THAT sense of the supernatural is quickly receding.
Greg, I did not mean to imply that those who are spiritual must believe in intellegent design. The point I was attempting to make is that many people misunderstand the concepts of order and chaos as they relate to entropy and intelligence.