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Thesis excerpt #1 : Quoting an anonymous pope, Voltaire noted, “If God created us in his own image, we have more than returned the favor."
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A century later, Feuerbach proposed that all religion is human projection, attributing to God qualities a given culture reveres, like reason, love, and even righteous violence. These are fair critiques.
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Given any ambiguity, humans tend to envision God in ways that underwrite our security, desire to hold power, and personal prejudices.
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Comment: Thinking about where our religious ideas call us to be better and where they justify our own bad behavior is essential for spiritual maturity and for religions that are constructive for humanity.
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If we resist this kind of thinking it may be diagnostic that we're in it for the wrong reasons.
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