God as a General Idea   What is God?
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As for the faith, the object of worship is asked for


* God as the general idea of a transcendental existence

In faith, an object of worship is sought out and a general concept worthy of 
worship is created.  Power is given by the thing that one requests to and is 
raised by those who worship.  That the concept of God is one that becomes 
something absolute, sacred and transcendental is because the hearts of the 
people who worship it are seeking out that kind of existence.

Depending on the age and area, there have existed very human-like gods.  For 
example, in the original Greek myths, even while existing as an existence 
separate from humans and possessing tremendous physical clout, the gods' 
actions were just like those of humans and even the idea of half-breeds between 
the gods and humans was conceived.  For this age and area of land, this kind of 
god was ideal as an object of worship.

In another age and another land there was a faith called animism in which it 
was thought that a soul resided in all things in the world of nature and all 
things created artificially.  This is not the idea that there is a single 
absolute existence that controls everything, but rather it is the construction 
of a whole system of the relationships of various affairs in which by creating 
relations that have gained harmony in each individual the harmony of the whole 
is preserved.  In addition, each person depending on both the time and the 
necessity will worship the image that they feel to be closest to themselves. 
Furthermore, in the case of the creation of an absolute single entity, 
everything is devoted to it and the idea to wish for a simplified, firm 
ideology and community consciousness is born.  Based on that, an absolute god 
existence that is stronger than anything, surpasses everything, and is more 
just than anything was born.  This kind of self-righteous existence produces an 
imperialism of thought and an antagonistic relationship with many other gods 
and is the origin that gave rise to riots.

* Peace and God

In order to acquire peace of the heart, the existence of God was sought out.  
This does not always signify a peace with a useful meaning.  It is not a 
repudiation of conflict.  That is the tranquility of the heart that occurs in 
the confrontation with the world for the believers.  When one thinks of the 
state after death, one feels an unbearable uneasiness at the thought of the end 
where the self goes that people do not know of.  In contrast to a life of only 
turning toward that uneasiness and getting closer to it, one embraces 
nothingness (close to word for nihilism) and despair.  In order to give meaning 
and significance to this meaningless, dark life, an existence of light that 
shines on our lives becomes necessary.  That is a thought that is the general 
concept of God.  By being illuminated with that light meaning is born into life 
and one can run from the nothingness and despair.  Death is given meaning and 
accepting it is no longer nihilistic.  This gives birth to the tranquility of 
the heart.

Consequently, in order to protect this tranquility of the heart, it becomes 
possible to conduct a war without fearing death.  Sacrificing one's life in 
order to protect the existence that grants one the tranquility of the heart 
becomes a magnificent act.  In an unstable life without meaning it is proper to 
accept a death with meaning. To someone who believes in a single, absolute 
existence, accepting other gods is unforgivable.  If one is a person who knows 
religion as the metaphor of confrontation between the world and oneself, one 
realizes that this confrontation is only the difference of individual tastes 
but if one hopes to take the metaphor as reality one cannot recognize this 
difference.  This is because if one recognizes it, the world one believes in 
will crumble.

* God as Creator

An existence in the position of creation understands all of its creations.  
Just as the original developer of KOS-MOS knows KOS-MOS' functions.  Just as 
only Vector Industries, which has monopolized the production of the central 
device of realians, knows about the inside of the blackbox.  In the 
relationship between the one who creates and the one who is created, a complete 
master and servant relationship is born.

In the change from the age when the story-like world view that the human body 
was created by God was common sense to the age when it was explained that it 
was created by genetics, the words that spoke of God have been translated to 
the words that speak of genetics. A body that is molded by God turned into a 
body that is molded by genetics.  The fate that God gave us became the primary 
factor of inherited genes and the probability of its manifestation.  The action 
of healing an illness by praying to God changed to gene therapy. Giving birth 
for the sake of maintaining a cooperative body that would praise God became an 
animal-like action for the sake of continuing the genes.

* One who knows everything

Power/authority is born from information.  When information runs dry, power is 
lost.  Power is maintained by obtaining information.  It has become clear that 
information regulation is the essential job that supports the basis of 
authority for most organizations trying to establish a nation.

With that meaning, the general concept of a God that grasps the entire world 
becomes an existence that possesses absolute authority.  This means that there 
is nothing it does not know and nothing else can be allowed to access that 
knowledge.

This sacred existence supports God's absolute authority.  Upon entering the age 
in which God and genes were talked about as analogous concepts, naturally 
ideology trying to protect that authority against genes was born.

This came to be expressed in the words "that is God's domain."  This surely has 
the meaning that genes are standing in the position of God. It is bringing out 
the concept of God and accepting handling God and genes on the same level.  
Their expression aimed to recognize the existence of God as an absolute thing 
and moreover withdraw the value of genes.  However, in the first place, to the 
person thinking in the position of the characters that appeared in the story of 
God, it was taken as an expression withdrawing the concept of God toward an 
existence that can apply the physical treatment called genes (I don't 
understand this sentence).

The aims of both sides disagreed with each other and, while using the same 
words, these words that they fired from completely different standpoints did 
not reach each others hearts following parallel lines, and thus the lack of 
understanding and ignoring continued; despite it one continued to believe in 
one's own correctness, deny the other side and it became aggressive, developing 
into terrorism. Humans are all a childish existence.  They are a decisive, 
self-righteous, stupid existence.

In order to guide this kind of existence, while paradoxical, the existence of 
God is necessary.  That which guides.  That is one who can gaze at the future.  
Just as it has been necessary for various gods to be born from the unease 
people feel from the future, if there exists someone who can erase the unease 
of the future, the people obey that person.  In addition, by being regulated by 
only one existence, the people compose one conclusion and become self-righteous 
or it will bring about a totalitarian, profitable peace.  Whether or not that 
is happiness is a separate issue.

Probability of unchanging corresponding phenomena…95.88756%


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