it is to our nature to explain natural phenomena
if we can't explain, we think of an explanation- it has always been like that- from the most primitive tribes (many spirits for each - lightning, sea, water, storm), to more advanced civilizations (greeks- only some dozen of gods), to our time - not so many religions (4big) and small amount of gods, which over time explain even less and less.
There will always be a place for god, but that's not the question or answer.
the thing is that- through time gods/supernatural beings explain less and less, they become not needed and so many stop to believe in them. It's been a movement to this dirrection since the first sacriface
there really are no gods* - there is only our will to explain things which we can't explain with our current level of technology/science
*(ok- 9.99 x 10^90% to be honest)
as for believers continuing to believe that thunder is caused by some thunder god being angry or anything else-
"After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave--a tremendous, gruesome shadow. God is dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown.--And we--we still have to vanquish his shadow, too."
--Friedrich Nietzsche
if we can't explain, we think of an explanation- it has always been like that- from the most primitive tribes (many spirits for each - lightning, sea, water, storm), to more advanced civilizations (greeks- only some dozen of gods), to our time - not so many religions (4big) and small amount of gods, which over time explain even less and less.
There will always be a place for god, but that's not the question or answer.
the thing is that- through time gods/supernatural beings explain less and less, they become not needed and so many stop to believe in them. It's been a movement to this dirrection since the first sacriface
there really are no gods* - there is only our will to explain things which we can't explain with our current level of technology/science
*(ok- 9.99 x 10^90% to be honest)
as for believers continuing to believe that thunder is caused by some thunder god being angry or anything else-
"After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave--a tremendous, gruesome shadow. God is dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown.--And we--we still have to vanquish his shadow, too."
--Friedrich Nietzsche
