God- The concept!

 

Cima da Conegliano, God the Father

In ancient times, people of great wisdom came together, and made up the concept of God.
Now you must think, Why?

I have once had an epiphany about it.
Then  I heard and read in many other religions that man is said to be made in  the image of god, or made by god to rule over all its subjects.

I thought, as they say about history, that its written by victors..
In this scenario, these scholars, people with great wisdom are the victors.. Humans are the victors..
Victors of their minds, beliefs and everything

Just  think, we, the people, have consciousness.. we can think for ourselves,  ask questions, try to understand stuff.. but when there is something we  can't understand.. What do we do? We somehow relate it with God, and  are done with it until we are ready to understand at a later time.

Before the concept of God, what do you think people did?
They  ask those great people these questions like- Why do we exist? What  happens after we die? How are we born? Where are we? What is the meaning  of love, anger, family, bonds and everything related? All these Whats,  and Hows, were unanswerable in ancient times...

What  would you have done, when You are considered great by people, and you  don't know the answers... of Course, you create an abstract concept,  name it God, and tell the masses, that it was the will of the god and  answer every question in relation with god!
As  nobody knew what or who God was, it was easier to believe that God has  created us all(more so after saying we were made in his image) than to  have no answers..
First make people  believe God is awesome(easily done by saying he created the lands with a  wave of his hands or similar things) then relate the people to od, and  make them pseudoAwesome.. Everyone's happy!!

as any great idea(like iPhone, or electricity) this one quickly became favorite and widely accepted.

Now,  The Great People from different places on earth, changed The concept to  their needs.. as there was no Cloud computing to sync all their answers  or a wiki where they can see what collective community decided on the  concept of God.

So  in start, there were so many Gods in so many different communities. The  elements were all gods, trees, sun, moon, stars, sky, a random weird  rock too.. all were Gods for different people

Then  later on more great people saw that due to difference in their beliefs  in God, the tribes or to say civilizations started fighting with each  other.. He dared say something about moon goddess, or she said ill of  this banyan tree God, or whatever their God was..
So they decided to unite them all..

Now  many people had this idea, so there still are many religions, but by  the invention of books(RulesBook/StoryBook that almost every religion  has) and due to these prophets' efforts.. they were able to unite many  tribes, and made them follow the Code that they thought would help the  mankind. They DID help us all.. phrases like Thank God, or Please help  me lord.. they are all here due to these Great People's efforts

So  things like waking with the sun, or murdering being a sin.. all these  spiritual concepts were introduced by these people with great wisdom,  over thousands of years, for the betterment of the society!

And the society is better now!

In the end... Its what My epiphany contains.. and what turned me into an atheist!

Comment  on what you think about it? I really did not mean to offend anybody by  writing this, and its just an independent thought.. so please take it  lightly!!

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