Theory of God - Part 3 of 6

When you posit God however, you posit a conceptual idea. This is made obvious by simply asking 100 different people what God is. You will get 100 completely different ideas, because God is made up in your brain.

Clearly we are all wired to see/feel/believe in God, but where we go wrong is thinking that therefore a real God did the wiring. The feeling and belief in a God is a brain adaptation that has been co-opted by religion and mythology. The God awareness in our brain clearly served some other purpose in our evolutionary past that is now long gone.

But in the past five thousand years, religion has managed to take over that network of brain cells, calling it true, factual, unseen reality. God. Now, when it comes to God, God is simply a bunch of crazy people throughout history having hallucinations – a fire in the brain. Look, all you have to do is look around a tiny bit and you realize that the human brain has some MAJOR problems.

Just talk to folks a bit and you realize that people are kinda crazy. In fact, 1 in 4 people have an undiagnosed mental disorder. It’s the brain that’s screwed up. It’s not well designed. In fact it’s not designed at all. We just have to live and deal with a bunch of adaptations and mutations that are good enough. The brain is messed up. We have a hard time distinguishing sensations as coming from inside of us because our brain is oriented toward the outside external world.

That makes sense, of course, because that is what is most “dangerous” is the outside world, and so the outside world is where your brain processing power goes. But, we have a really hard time making that distinction, so if we feel a feeling inside, it is very easy to project that feeling as coming from outside.

Now, whether that is a spiritual feeling or a feeling you have about a relationship or a person, the situation is identical.