If we work under the atheist assumption, that God is all in the imaginary, then using psychology principles, God would be considered a projection stemming from the human unconscious mind.
A projection is sort of like an image within the imagination, that will overlay sensory data coming into our brain from our sensory systems. For example, one may come upon a Muslim who is a nice person in reality. If you got afraid and thought he was a threat, the different between the sensory reality of their being a nice person, and your perception of threat, is connected to an imagination overlay onto reality; projection. The projection can appear real. One may even think it is based on sensory data. But it is in the imagination acting as an overlay onto objective data.
Projection is useful because it can tell us things about unconscious dynamics within the individual. For example, the fear of threat, in the above example, might tell us how the unconscious mind was conditioned, so one can't be fully objective to certain hard sensory data.
If we assume God is/was a projection, since God is a collective abstraction, his specified nature would tell us things about the nature of the ancient unconscious mind. The God of the old testament was a paradox. He could be nice and then get very angry. That projection would reflect the mind of the ancient person. The ancient person could do good things, and then could go ballistic and kill without remorse. This bi-polar disorder, between what we might call good and evil may have been the norm in its day.
Later, if Jesus was also just part of the imagination, and was therefore also a projection, this reflects a evolutionary change within the unconscious mind away from the bi-polar disorder. The soft nature of his projection would reflect this change, and will tell us about the human mind. But not everyone changed, with the cruel who projected fear of the sheep, having a different type of disposition.
Religions with polytheism, if that was their God projection, would reflect multiple personality disorders as the norm for that culture. Today one may become very artistic, with the personality one way, yet fully focused. Tomorrow the next personality may become full of rage, ready for war and destruction. etc. Focus into specialty personalities can take specialization very fair; art, partying, war, etc. The real sensory data of the Christian sheep would have a bi-polar and/or multiple personality projection overlay, so now the sheep is a dragon to slay. That reflected the darkness in the unconscious minds of the cruel, who could not see the reality data underneath their projection.
The old testament has Satan, as the left hand man of God. Satan would try to influence God, who was himself a paradox of love then rage. Satan was the lord of the earth in ancient traditions. This projection has a connection to instinct or mother nature (satan was father nature to coin a phrase). This ancient composite projection reflected the ancient split bipolar personality with a instinctive twist. It must have been a scary time to live, where modern normal would be an anomaly.
I am precluding the option that God is/was real to narrow the subject. I am only focusing on the concept of projection to infer the nature of the ancient human personality, as a function of their god projection. They were not us in ancient clothing. It was more like a trip to the mental ward of today. The ancient pathology could give some the superhuman strength of a psychotic rage. Later jump into creativity skills that can sculpter, etc, Their gods sort of tell us about their unconscious compulsions.
By defining projections into collective terms for a culture, Gods applies to all. The unconscious mind becomes more collective, via the superego, and begins to gain group structure. The entire herd can see the fearful Muslim, who is actually nice based on hard data. The tale of the scary (but nice) Muslim encounter will seem very real, and be carried forward via the herd projection and expectation. The mind is complicated with projection only changing from Gods to other things.
A projection is sort of like an image within the imagination, that will overlay sensory data coming into our brain from our sensory systems. For example, one may come upon a Muslim who is a nice person in reality. If you got afraid and thought he was a threat, the different between the sensory reality of their being a nice person, and your perception of threat, is connected to an imagination overlay onto reality; projection. The projection can appear real. One may even think it is based on sensory data. But it is in the imagination acting as an overlay onto objective data.
Projection is useful because it can tell us things about unconscious dynamics within the individual. For example, the fear of threat, in the above example, might tell us how the unconscious mind was conditioned, so one can't be fully objective to certain hard sensory data.
If we assume God is/was a projection, since God is a collective abstraction, his specified nature would tell us things about the nature of the ancient unconscious mind. The God of the old testament was a paradox. He could be nice and then get very angry. That projection would reflect the mind of the ancient person. The ancient person could do good things, and then could go ballistic and kill without remorse. This bi-polar disorder, between what we might call good and evil may have been the norm in its day.
Later, if Jesus was also just part of the imagination, and was therefore also a projection, this reflects a evolutionary change within the unconscious mind away from the bi-polar disorder. The soft nature of his projection would reflect this change, and will tell us about the human mind. But not everyone changed, with the cruel who projected fear of the sheep, having a different type of disposition.
Religions with polytheism, if that was their God projection, would reflect multiple personality disorders as the norm for that culture. Today one may become very artistic, with the personality one way, yet fully focused. Tomorrow the next personality may become full of rage, ready for war and destruction. etc. Focus into specialty personalities can take specialization very fair; art, partying, war, etc. The real sensory data of the Christian sheep would have a bi-polar and/or multiple personality projection overlay, so now the sheep is a dragon to slay. That reflected the darkness in the unconscious minds of the cruel, who could not see the reality data underneath their projection.
The old testament has Satan, as the left hand man of God. Satan would try to influence God, who was himself a paradox of love then rage. Satan was the lord of the earth in ancient traditions. This projection has a connection to instinct or mother nature (satan was father nature to coin a phrase). This ancient composite projection reflected the ancient split bipolar personality with a instinctive twist. It must have been a scary time to live, where modern normal would be an anomaly.
I am precluding the option that God is/was real to narrow the subject. I am only focusing on the concept of projection to infer the nature of the ancient human personality, as a function of their god projection. They were not us in ancient clothing. It was more like a trip to the mental ward of today. The ancient pathology could give some the superhuman strength of a psychotic rage. Later jump into creativity skills that can sculpter, etc, Their gods sort of tell us about their unconscious compulsions.
By defining projections into collective terms for a culture, Gods applies to all. The unconscious mind becomes more collective, via the superego, and begins to gain group structure. The entire herd can see the fearful Muslim, who is actually nice based on hard data. The tale of the scary (but nice) Muslim encounter will seem very real, and be carried forward via the herd projection and expectation. The mind is complicated with projection only changing from Gods to other things.
