Where is God hiding out?

[Bretton Garcia]

5. Anthropology suggests animism as the root of all religions

Ancients thought that invisible gods were everywhere, animating things. That is, making things - animals, trees, water, air - move. Making things happen.

But that would mean that gods, or the powers that make things move, that make things happen, are not above us in the sky But deep inside Nature.

That ancient view, animism, is in some surprising ways, compatible with science. Since all that might include, say, invisible atoms. Tiny invisible things, making things happen.

No doubt to be sure, modern science though is a very considerable improvement on these early roots.

And for that matter? This means that modern religions, with their "heaven" and so forth, are degenerate, and wrong. They misread their own animistic origins.

Whereas, ironically? Science is truer to the origins of religion. Even as it extended and improved on them, very considerably.