Consciousness Is An Outcome Of Evolution

By Sumit Paul, New Age Islam 9 February 2024 I Understand Your Wound That Have Not Healed They Exist Because God And Love Have Yet To Become Real Enough To Allow You To Forgive The Dream Hafiz Shirazi ----- This forum has spawned a few Christian readers who seem to be in touch with Jesus on a hotline! In other words, they're connected with Jesus at a personal level. This is again an example of anthropomorphism: Creating a 'personal' god as you perceive it. Great, if that gives them happiness and all their wishes are fulfilled, But the whole saga of a personal god sounds so puerile. In a 1947 letter, Einstein stated that "It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously." In a letter to Beatrice Frohlich on 17 December 1952, Einstein stated, "The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naïve." I'm not criticising but the Literalist Christian message looks absurd and grotesque. You were born in sin and deserve to be punished. So, god sent his own 'son,' Jesus, to planet Earth to suffer horribly on the cross to pay for your sins. Jesus died for you and then resurrected and went to Heaven. And, if you believe that this really happened, you'll also go to Heaven when you die, where you'll have a rollicking time forever. But if you don't believe that the resurrection really happened, when you die, you'll go to Hell and be subjected to really horrible tortures for all eternity. By a god of love! That's why Italian great Dante's 'Divine Comedy' sends Muhammad to hell. In fact, In Inferno, the first part of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, Muhammad is placed in Malebolge, the eighth circle of hell, designed for those who have committed fraud; specifically, he is placed in the ninth Bolgia (ditch) among the sowers of discord and schism. Dante drew his inspiration from the Jewish and Christian 'sacred' literature to create a 'masterpiece'. Israel Finkelstein, director of archaeology at Tel Aviv University, and his co-writer, Neil Silberman, describe the Bible as 'no more historical than the Homeric saga of Odysseus or Aeneas' founding of Rome. The biblical narrative is so thoroughly fraught with inconsistencies and anachronisms......that it must be considered more of a historical novel than an accurate historical chronicle. The Myth of Jesus and later Trinity were concocted in Christianity to mollycoddle those who came into its fold. The earliest Church concocted the 'story' of Jesus' crucifixion, which is actually Crucifiction, to appeal to humans' maudlin sentimentalism by creating an excruciating narrative of Jesus' sufferings (they call it 'The Passion' of the Christ!) on the Cross. In reality, human history's most famous man never existed. Myth of Jesus is the world's biggest hoax; far bigger than the fabled Loch Ness Monster, affectionately known as Nessie. Go beyond all these fables and fantasies. Instead, focus on your own story. Mary asks how humans developed their level of consciousness if there's no god. Well, consciousness is a product/outcome of evolution, independent of a creator. Why has human consciousness evolved (and it's still evolving) in such a long time? Had there been some creator, it'd simply have bestowed that upon humans. But that never happened. Humans have evolved in an inordinately long span of time and way to reach the current state and stage. We shall go further and will be so evolved that we won't require any god. But that will take crores of years. Until that happens, you continue to believe in a higher power, speak with him/her/it and feel blessed. A deluded state of mind also has its own pluses as it keeps you away from thinking, which is the most cumbersome and ponderous task for a majority of humans. Mind you, there's no condescension or pontification in it. ---- A regular columnist for New Age Islam, Sumit Paul is a researcher in comparative religions, with special reference to Islam. He has contributed articles to the world's premier publications in several languages including Persian. URL: https://newageislam.com/spiritual-meditations/consciousness-outcome-evolution/d/131685 New Age Islam, Islam Online, Islamic Website, African Muslim News, Arab World News, South Asia News, Indian Muslim News, World Muslim News, Women in Islam, Islamic Feminism, Arab Women, Women In Arab, Islamophobia in America, Muslim Women in West, Islam Women and Feminism