A Brief Guide to God and the Soul

ISBN-13: 9780990645757 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 48 str.

Edward Conklin Ph. D.

Opis

This short work is a collection of brief essays that discuss mtaphysical areas of inquiry such as the western concept of a human-like god and the human soul. Since a religion cannot be classified as mathematics, and cannot be classified as a science, then religion should be more properly classified as art. The term "art" is defined as "works created by human skill and imagination." Just as are tool-making, invention, and the creative arts of theatre, film, literature, painting, and sculpture, the many gods and goddesses of religion, are also the result of artistic endeavor, the purely artistic subjective expression of creative talent. Religion must be studied for what it really is, a creative craft and imaginative artistic expression. The human soul as that which survives physical death has long been associated with reason, ethics, morals, and goodness yet in reality is none these. The soul of life consists of a relative and triune force of hunger for food, sex and reproduction, and aggression that enable living forms to survive life and also to continue to survive after physical death. These behaviors are the soul essence of life, in turn a continuation of the environment, and all is a dependent continuation of a nonhuman-like cosmological origin.