The History of God

And the Swedes seem to have confirmed that humans have been on the planet about 350,000 years.  Way longer than the 100,000 year estimate of before.  So, on this Sunday morning that has a huge impact on my religious thinking.  So, for the first 10,000 years of humans there is no evidence of that the god of the old testament revealed himself.  Nor for the first 20,000, the first 30,000, the first 40,000, the first 50,000, and on and on until we get to about the first 346,000 years  when the real god revealed himself to a nomadic, illiterate group in the mid east.  God did not reveal himself to the Chinese.  They could read and write.  He revealed himself to a people who had to have an oral history.  He revealed himself to Bronze Age thinkers.  He revealed himself to a group that referred to their homeland as the land of milk and honey, but it is the only land in the mid east that has no oil.  India already had gods,  China already had gods, many in the mid east already had gods.  Why did this god wait so long to reveal himself and why did he choose the Israelites.  He could have chosen the Greeks who already had a wonderful pantheon of gods.  Nope.

And I wonder, if the collective memories of humanity were wiped out, if we lost all our knowledge and all our books and all our hard drives and thumb drives and servers and clouds, would we "re-discover" god?  Seems highly, highly unlikely. 

Think I will avoid church today.  I know they will not discuss these issues.  They will engage in a cannibalistic ritual ("this is my flesh, this is my blood") and ask for money since the all-powerful all-knowing miracle-working creator god always seems to need money.

And to all the Christians in Puerto Rico:  If you believe god will take care of you, that having Jesus in your life is all you will ever need, that even as he cares for the sparrow he will care for you, why the hell are you mad at Trump?