Fascinating article. How would we know, indeed. Jesus was gods way of committing suicide. Now that's a new twist.
I would dare say we don't know god exists as it is. All that affirms that as so, is people declaring such is the case. They write books, claim it's gods authoritative word as the one and only evidence, in light of the history that contains far older scriptural accounts that profess their truth as gods word as well. Then it becomes a sort of battle of the tribes, for supremacy as to who's god is true or real. And it's all fought on the mortal conscious playing field. With nary any input from this deity they speak for, at all. Everything that exists is said to be proof of god. No, that's supposition based on the initial affirmation there is such a thing as god, that came before all that we know to exist. It is not, nor shall it ever constitute proof that man, in it's limited consciousness, can ever articulate in human terms, what something as powerful as that what is credited with being the originator of all existence, can fathom. Evidence of this is that virtually every god has human characteristics. Because that's what makes it something humans can identify with so as to feel it does hold their best interest at heart, because it can relate on their level. When really, people made those god images, so they could relate to being alive as something more than this mere mortal state of awareness, that is so obviously flawed, that it believes first that it can claim it knows absolutely, not only that there is a god, but exactly what it means for that to then be god. And then, what it means to be a human that rightly worships this god. And that ego, makes for all the holy wars that come after, all the separatist thinking that divides the human community, into states of loyalty for a concept.
Amazing! That a concept, can actually divide real life, because some people believe it is necessary to hold one faith, forsaking all others in matters of respect as fellow human beings, just so as to feel singularly secure, they're living this life in the right way and according to the "rules" that were made by other people, long before they were born. I think institutionalized loyalties are what is responsible for having fractured the human community, by free will alone in calling ones self loyal to a concept, rather than to a sense of self, so as to achieve the paradise religions promise after this living is done. How naive, how gullible and how tragically unfortunate for the future, if the past and present is any indicator of what awaits, if we don't wake up.
