What GOD do you believe in? Many cultures throughout human history have developed various concepts of who and where god is. It is too easy to say that your god exists in your heart - that is to say that god exists because you believe it - but if god is real, where is s/he? If we cut open your heart will we find god? There must be a place you can point to and say: “there is god,” even as cultures past have offered up the following ideas.
WHERE IS YOUR GOD?
-A god who walks this planet and lives among her people?
-A god that lives in a grand temple?
-A mountain god?
-A god who is the planet?
-A sky god?
-A moon god?
-A sun god?
-A god that overreaches us and forms the shell within which contains the sky, solar system and the stars?
-A god that lives in space around our solar system?
-A god that exists within our universe and floats around in the massive empty spaces between the stars?
-A god that exists somewhere within the multidimensional possibilities of the universe?
-A god that overreaches our universe and forms the shell or fabric that comprises our universe?
-A god that existed before the Big Bang and who is expressed by the fabric and creation of the dreamworld we call the universe?
-A god that exists outside of and independent of our universe?
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Drawn from mythological research:
Coyote is the god who walks this planet and lives among her people. She is our mother and created us from her own body. Mythology suggests that Coyote in turn was created by Old Creator from the material of this planet. Old creator was furious at Coyote for 'stealing' the knowledge of creation, and attempted to destroy humankind. Coyote saved a few of us and drove Old Creator off.
Coyote rebuilt this planet for us after the massive flooding, earthquakes and destruction of the melting of the last Ice Age (Old Creator's attack), but is condemned to remain here with us. She has been influencing our development and has gained a reputation as a trickster because her ways are not ours: she has her own agenda.
Old Creator will come back to reclaim his property and we may be encouraged by Coyote to fight, or, if you follow the Raelian religion: A change of government has occurred with Old Creator and we have until 2030 to prove that we are worthy of membership in the celestial hierarchy.
The story of Coyote is strikingly similar throughout diverse cultures around the world and is known by many names. As Coyote is as American as Mom and Apple Pie, I have chosen that name.
Discuss
Musycks on March 24, 2008, 10:39 PM
Coyote,
You may know there are many lovely creation myths around, some primitive tribes have us coming from a drop of milk, others a rainbow serpent.. others 7 days work by a nasty Santa Claus type magician…
more evidence of a search for meaning, and absolutely no evidence of a creator.
Nice stories have their place.. it’s what gets pushed as fact and twisted to geo-political ends we should be worried about.
By all means let people believe in fairies at the bottom of the garden, but when that thinking encourages violence because they are the wrong type of fairies from the ones others say exist, then we should all step back and think hard about where this philosophy gets us.
Steven Sturdevant on March 27, 2008, 11:28 PM
Jeez, musycks, you nailed it all the way down but then ended with the most PC ending in history. "Step back and think hard? I mean: Hey, when you start to see the Christians scurrying about gathering stakes and kindling, don’t you think stepping back for some hard think might be a little too little a little too late? We’re a minuscule minority here. The time for thinking ended eons ago. It’s time to make your voice heard in the battle to keep the mega-church from rewriting the
constitution. They have made many inroads and States like Kansas have already shown they can over-ride common sense and teach mythology as fact in public schools. That battle is far from over and the only thing that keeps us off the Rack is the law. The religions have amply shown us they love to watch the infidel being drawn and quartered. Sure, they protest that that was ancient history and they’ve “evolved” beyond that now. If you believe that, I’ve some property just downstream from a uranium mine in Wyoming I’d sell you for a bargain price.
Join, volunteer, protest, write congress, organize… anything to help keep these bloodthirsty inquisitors out of our classrooms and halls of law.
Steven Sturdevant on March 27, 2008, 11:37 PM
Coyote;
I forgot to answer your question. My definitions of God are: ?, ? and ?. No one… no one has a clue. And, I really like a God with that kind of a sense of humor.
Musycks on March 30, 2008, 8:48 PM
Dear Trasa,
I like the cut of your gib, but I didn’t say what ‘think hard’ should bring re actions? I’m on these sites cause I think you Yanks in particular get bugger all exposure to atheist thinking? as for you legislators, they are as bad the world over.. but thankfully here in the land down under we don’t have them pushing creationism in all it’s ghastly forms!
keep swinging!
Steven Sturdevant on April 1, 2008, 3:55 PM
musycks;
You bring a salient point to the table. One that I have struggled to understand to the better part of half a century and am no closer to solving than when I started. Americans have spent billions, over the years, trying to convert it’s population to a sensible system of measurement yet we still measure in units based on the distance between royal knuckles. Despite being extremely well traveled, we still see ourselves as somehow superior to the rest of the world. Over eighty percent (Pick your stats.) of our population believe in some sort of spiritualism based on magic beings. We ARE a powerful force in the world. We ARE technologically advanced yet we still, repeatedly, elect leaders who believe they were picked, by God, to correct the rest of the world. I am unable to comprehend this paradoxical state of affairs.
But, I still say you were too PC in your response to Coyote. How’s that for an example of American intransigence?
Musycks on April 1, 2008, 10:16 PM
T Rasa,
While I am less tolerant of the monotheists (I’ll invoke Bill Hicks here ‘forgive me’).. than say Coyote’s take on things… it’s because I’m not closed off to evidence of the sublime or the transcendant… I just think it comes from within us, not without… for better or worse and whatever the hell it means, I don’t know… but I’m interested.
When supernatural world view philosphies inform the political debate, as it does in the good ol US of A, I do get nervous.
I know you guys tend to think the world begins at the Canadian border and ends at the Mexican… so your education system needs to be broadened a bit… now if only you could use your powers for good not evil!
(haha)
I visited your country last year and had a great time.. gee, Americans are not really any different to other people after all!
Who knew?
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