If we were able to set aside proving the existence of god for awhile, lets take a look at when and how the existence of god in the minds of people is a good thing and when does it go bad.

As simply put as I can...

Lets go back 40,000 years. Kids then knew what it was like to be watched by their mother. Feeling that you are being watched is a transmutable emotion that can be transferred into a god like observance. It was a valuable experience for a tribe when someone did a bad thing that deserved punishment. When a fellow tribesman did the punishment, a vendetta or revenge cycle was established to the detrement of the tribe. If however a god was respondible for the punishment, the tribe could be insulated from personal in fighting. This was a good thing.

When it goes bad for the tribe of long ago or today, is when the punishment by god, delivered by man, is prescribed for things like having the wrong god or usurping "god's judgment" for your own advancment of personal gain at the expense of the tribe.


Enter Glen Beck...or fill in the blank with your favorite crack pot, reverend or dictator.