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Soph0571

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Mon Apr 22, 2019, 10:38 AM Apr 2019

Where is God hiding out? [View all]

I watched an interesting documentary about first contact with tribes living in protected lands in the Amazon. It was fascinating. One of the questions the anthropologist who engaged with them asked was ‘where do you go when you die?’ The answer? ‘To the Sky.’ Seemingly, even those who have had no contact with the major religious texts look to the sky for the afterlife. They are not alone, within living memory religious adherents, of all major (and many minor) religions, were of the opinion that God (the good) indisputably inhabited the vast blue expanse above the planet, whereas the Devil (the bad) hung out in the fiery, burning, desolate sub-terrestrial environ of a (sometimes flat?!?!) planet Earth.

This belief in reinforced in religious art and iconography, which for the last 500 years, has customarily characterised Gods and Demons as dwelling in the ethereal locale in or just above the clouds or the fiery pits of the centre of the Earth. Of course, in the 21st century we know that God does not literally inhabit the sky. Well unless you are a tribe who makes first contact in the last couple of years. We have planes that reach above the clouds and satellites that reach above the atmosphere. We have telescopes that are so powerful we can see far into remote regions of the universe. We have been to the moon, we have sent probes to Mars. We have not seen God in any of those places. Unless NASA is keeping the existence of God in the sky a big secret, there is no evidence of God in the place he traditionally inhabited.

So, where is God hiding out?

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