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 | | From: | Keith Wootten | | Subject: | Re: What Is God? | | Date: | Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:04:32 +0000 |
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 | In message <4BzLGPKpdB8BFwoo@jmwa.demon.co.uk>, John Woodgate
writes
>I read in sci.electronics.design that TripleEight <888@msn.com> wrote
>(in ) about 'What Is God?', on
>Thu, 20 Jan 2005:
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>>God is something civilised groups of humans created to make sure the way
>>of being civilised is kept and followed.
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>For sufficiently lax definitions of 'civilized', that's right. But we
>wouldn't regard the first human societies that had gods as civilized at
>all. It is possible that Neanderthals had gods, and this week they are
>not counted as ancestral to Homo sapiens.
Yes, I reckon the god(s) meme evolved along with tools or weapons which
made killing much easier. Of course I have proof, but there's
insufficient room here to expound.
Cheers
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Keith Wootten
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