What are we talking about, when we talk about God? There's no doubt that something has been lost with the pervasive decline of religion in the modern world. Society is fractured. We lack a shared framework. We're tired of trying to work everything out. It's easier just to avoid thinking at all.
Which is in some ways the point of religion - to avoid having to reinvent the wheel when it comes to purpose and morality. In its absence, we are adrift.
Here at the Hidden Power Podcast one thing has been clear all along: we need to put the Biosphere at the centre of our governance models, and as Lynne White proposed over Fifty years ago - religion may be the key. What is a governance model, if not the prioritising of what is important?
In this episode, Ed sets out various ideas about God, laying them against the Biosphere like a series of well-formed suits.
Talking points:
Context of this episode: nature in its maternal aspect
What are we talking about when we talk about God
Some theologies - Scott Littleton, Monotheism, Carl Jung
Worship is for the Worshipper
Gods as forces of nature, as the highest thing
Explanation - God vs Science
God as unifying moral compass
The symbol of human value
Spirit - team spirit
Faith - God as purpose, God as love
Accountability - God, People
Communication - the golden rule and the biosphere
God the fixer and the prime minister of Australia
Deism vs Pantheism
What is God? Why can't He be the biosphere?
Links
Erasmus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus#The_first_translation
Scott Littleton on God
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deity
Carl Jung
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung
- read by Alan Watts, shortly after Jung's passing in 1961 (YouTube)
https://youtu.be/15pjQRA80bs
Accountability buddies (NY Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/well/live/habits-health.html
A workable version of pantheism (podcast):
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7w2IJE332ztKAnglGjxohf?si=iFn5qW9eQO68jr-IC150VA&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A6NOJ6IkTb2GWMj1RpmtnxP
Water and God (The Compass - podcast)
https://www.airr.io/episode/605aae14439f559d6a5c52f0
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