by CR (023)
Groups of similar affinity gather to worship a certain god in a certain way. Each people, each race created the image of a god to its own likeness.
A Chinese, for instance, would never admit of a god with western features, just as a westerner would consider absurd and even ridiculous the idea of a divinity with an Asian face.
Gods invariably have the physical and mental characteristics of those who conceived them.
It does not really matter that the latter, in a reversal of reality, assert that it was God who created man to God's likeness. The truth is quite different and it does not take too much imagination to discover the age-old delusion of which humanity has been the victim.
It was man who imagined, conceived, and created gods. He mentally conceived them with human form and with the same qualities and weaknesses that man has.
In this creation, the feelings of the conceivers are clearly reflected.
A bodily god is present in all religions. In one of them, god appears with his son seated to his right portraying a picture of everyday material life.
The concept of divinity, although variable from race to race, does not change the general concept of an almighty king-like god distributing rewards and punishments.
A so-called holy and sacred book for many worshippers, refers several times to the irascible, revengeful god of those times.
This shameful feeling, especially in a god, is no more than the reflection of the feelings of the people who conceived such a god.
References
[1] Christian Rationalism, 1st Edition, Rio de Janeiro 1984
[2] Compilation, paraphrasing, translation from original texts in Portuguese
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