ELI ON WESTERN POLYTHEISM and CURT ON THE QUALITY OF GODS.
—“Gods are important for the wisdom and virtues they embody and exemplify. … But different classes and different castes make use of, and require, different wisdom and different virtues. … Therefore, they worship different gods, even if they call them by the same name. … The God of a warrior is not the same god as the God of a commercial trader, or the God of a laborer, or the God of a Housewife, or the God of a King, or the God of a scribe.”—Eli Harman
Any individual, class group, tribe, nation, or race that states one god is superior to another claims only that their method of social order by which they compete against other social orders, is superior to another.
People produce evidence of the superiority or inferiority of their social order, by the results of their competition against other social orders.
There is only one measure of any god, just as there is only one measure of any people: the monumental, artistic, economic, and leisure status of its people. Weak poor people have weak poor gods. Gods who lie. Gods who mislead. Gods who enslave. Gods who breed ignorance. Gods who breed poverty. Gods who breed disease. Most gods are the product of the devil in man, not the good in him.
Else there would be no poor. No ignorant. No enslaved. No misled. No deceived.
Source date (UTC): 2016-10-31 17:17:00 UTC
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