Theism and egocentrismA Chapter by LucipherHuman race like any other member of the animal realm has grown to be cooperative with its own race, and to be hostile towards anything that’s not human. More than recognizing its difference with the other forms of life on Earth, humanity pictures itself as the highest level of conscience in Nature, which leaves the responsibility to mold it to its ideals. But facing the coldness and the chaos that rules its reality, mankind chose to lighten that burden by assigning the responsibility and the title of absolute conscience to a greater kind of being. Having to admit its inferiority to something, it made that thing so great that its mere existence transcends the human comprehension. Thus theism is the mere expression of humanity’s paradoxically high opinion of itself, it is also the conclusion that humanity should embrace its eternal powerlessness towards the laws of nature, and accepted it " the greater thing that makes nature be what it is. Some might see arrogance in the will of making a pact with nature (nature, its laws or the superior being that controls it), an arrogance that makes humans assume that as a superior race, they might be able to escape the chaos that moves nature, and that nature itself is made for the sake of their wellbeing, or their existence. Christianity affirms that God made mankind at his image, but in fact, mankind made for itself a god that fitted its pride.
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Added on January 5, 2016 Last Updated on January 5, 2016 AuthorLucipherRabat, MoroccoAboutFree thinker that belives in the misleadingness of evidence. more..Writing
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