Re:Research shows that people project their own beliefs onto...
by teeja on Friday December 04, 2009 @09:38PM
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Much like how we project our ideas about our ideal love-object onto the people we fall in love with. Which, of course, no person can ever live up to.
"God" is a very flexible object of contemplation. As a word, its entire meaning is dependent on context. To a great extent that context is very private. Yet most of humanity naively bandies it about as if we're already agreed on what it means. As a meme it's certainly one of the most, if not the most, successful that's ever grabbed hold of us. For whatever purposes.
"God" is a very flexible object of contemplation. As a word, its entire meaning is dependent on context. To a great extent that context is very private. Yet most of humanity naively bandies it about as if we're already agreed on what it means. As a meme it's certainly one of the most, if not the most, successful that's ever grabbed hold of us. For whatever purposes.