On 5/23/2019 10:04 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
That is the original sense of “god” by those who invented theology, from which they extracted physics and mathematics as competing theory about the fundamental reality (to simplify things a little bit).
Those who invented theology observed many events that affected their lives and which involved forces beyond their control and comprehension: disease, storms, earthquakes, famine, volcanoes,... So just as they attributed the actions of their acquaintances to inner emotions reflecting their own, they attributed these forces to spirits, inner agents, that acted out of passion and which could be placated as one would placate an angry human. For them there was not the distinction that came later between religion, magic, and science. As science, beginning with Thales of Miletus, rejected the idea a agency behind events it was split from religion and magic. The failure of magic to provide control resulted in religion largely rejecting it and instead claiming that the god(s) demanded various moral behaviors favorable to a priesthood and control by leaders, and could not be manipulated and controlled by magic.
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