Wow, an Excellent Analogy for Religion

Excellent!

Jacob I would agree with the god being the sun part.
if there was no sun there would be no earth, hence no moms. :)

I think Pharaoh Akhenaten got it right. he was the 1st one to come up with the idea of of there being only 1 god. and that was the sun god aten
later egiptian text avoids calling the Aten a god, giving the solar deity a status above mere gods.

A roman catholic sent me this once, It made me chuckle.
I think this is the idea behind that image:
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Do you believe in life after birth?
In the womb of a pregnant woman two babies carry on a conversation. One is a believer, the other an atheist.
The atheist: Do you believe in life after birth?
The believer: Certainly. Everybody knows that there is a life after birth. We are here to grow and become quite strong and prepared for what is waiting for us next.
The atheist: Come now! There could be no life after birth! Can you imagine how this life would be?
The believer: I don’t know all the details, but I believe that there is more light outside, and perhaps that we can wander around and eat food out there.
The atheist: Nonsense! It is impossible for us to walk and to eat! Ludicrous! We have the umbilical cord that nourishes us. I simply want you to consider the following: life after birth cannot exist because our life, the umbilical cord, is already quite short.
The believer: I am sure it is possible. It only will be a bit different. I can picture it.
The atheist: But there’s no one who’s ever returned from there! Life simply ends after birth. And frankly, life is of great suffering in the darkness.
The believer: No, no! I don’t know exactly how life will be after birth, but, in any case, we will meet our mother and she will take care of us!
The atheist: Mother? Do you think we have a mother? Well, where is she then?
The believer: She is everywhere around us, and we are inside her! We move because of her and thanks to her we get around and we live! Without her we would not exist.
The atheist: Absurd! I have never seen such a mother; therefore, there is no such thing.
The believer: I cannot agree with you. In fact, perhaps when everything is quiet, we can hear her sing and feel how she caresses our world. I firmly believe that our true life starts only after birth.
And you???

Dr. Jirina Prekop, PhD, Czech Psychologist
Translated to English by Ily Reis
Prepared by SGNY/SAB

Nois.
I think that there are already beings on this earth superior to mankind.

crocodiles for 1. they have lasted millions of years unchanged.

it is SO human to think that we are the superior animal on this planet.
throw us in the nile then we’ll see who’s superior :)

@Chemicalbr0 @Alan, interesting thought…
This is what I think: Reptiles were masters in adapting themselves to the environment, humans are masters in adapting the environnment to themselves. Read: Conversation(s) with God. (one of the blogposts) in which this is explained. Oh well, what the heck, here it is: “http://www.highexistence.com/mind-blowing-story-talking-to-god/”
about the story:
It’s not necessarily the truth, but it sheds a different light on things. :)

crocodiles was just an example, I just hate the way that the human race thinks that they are superior to all other animals on earth.

when it comes to intelligence then yes but intelligence is only a small factor in what makes a successful organism. (come back in a couple of million years and we’ll see how successful humans really are. through our own intelligence we will have probably wiped ourselves out)

it all depends on the environment, put people in the sea and we’re hopeless. yet sharks have existed there for millions of years.

Christian.. sperm whales dive 3 km down every day with no technology and that’s just to get lunch… beat that humans.

This analogy falls apart pretty quickly because the existence of mom is testable and verifiable.

another good analogy is when someone holds up a sign saying “Hey look over there” and then people beat the shit out of the guy with the sign and turn the sign into an idol

I can’t help myself.

http://toocooltobehipster.com/571/when-the-world-was-created

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