God and Man

One God

Humility=Relationship=Joy=Love

Pride = Self=Disconent=Misery

Many gods, don't want to have one

Philistines

Baal

Dagon

Grain

Molegh

Fire

We don't know

Many scientists

complexity of creation

Pride or fear to accept

In the Bible, Psalm 14:1-3

India Carvaka

500 BCE

No life after death

Live hapily on this earth

Classical Greece and Rome

Explain how life works (Science), Atomists (atoms)

God made, man discovers

Man discovers, pride, no God

Explain how people live (Government), Sophists (wise)

Teaching young to rule

Use of reason - frist Lawyers

Critisism of Religion

Establishment of Democracy

Meaning Now: Clever but fallacious argument

Who God is (Religion) Epicureans, no reasons for God's Judgment

People unhappy believing in God

God is not involved in the World

Renaissance

Started 1566 and on

from Church, French Catholic priest Jean Meslier (1664)

Intellectuals by Reason, 1770 work, The System of Nature by D'Holbach

Cult of Reaon

Centered upon a young woman designated the Goddess of Reason.

The churches were closed in May 1793

stopped by Maximilien Robespierre, a Deist, who instituted the Cult of the Supreme Being May 1794

Modern History

Carl Marx 1818-1883

religion in order to dull the pain

Russia and Ukraine - no believe in God, killed own people, Great Grandfather Jeremiah

Charles Darwin 1809-1882

He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors,[1] and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection, in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect to the artificial selection involved in selective breeding

Materialism as a system

Post Modern Today

A lie that God is only to judge, so don't belive in God and have a good life.