History of Religions

  • Posted by Theresa on February 4th, 2007 filed in Book Review

The Ghost in the Universe: God in Light of Modern Science

A quote from the book The Ghost in the Universe:

The history of religions makes God implausible., but not just because God’s empires are unlikely instruments for a loving God. It is because religions seem very human, not the product of gods and demons. We have hopes and hates, interests and fears. We tell stories. We seek supernatural sanction for our ideals, hoping this will make them something more than just our ideals. All this does not, by itself, mean the claim of One God is false. But religion seems so much a human creation that we do not need revelation to explain it. The One God succeded and flourished for reasons that had nothing to do with revealed truth. Monotheism was violent enough to ensure growth, and flexible enough to contain both desire for power and hope for freedom.


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