What is 'The Meaning of God' about?
As aetheist, I find it increasingly frustrating that so much of our society is influenced by superstitious nonsense. 'The Meaning of God' ultimately is intended to be my rebuttal for all those who clam there is a deity, and that worshipping, or even believing in them is important.
The Meaning of God is also primarily aimed at the Abrahamic God of the Old Testament, the Apocrapha and the New Testament... I suppose technically this god is also the same as 'Allah' of the Islamic religion.
Ultimately it's irrelevant, Meaning of God could be a Zues or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, why do people feel the need to have a deity? I think it's because the fact that we live relatively short lives then die can seem very bleak. Most animals aren't concerned about their existance, our self awareness has caused us to create gods, to creater and to seek a meaning of god.
Personally I think we should be at a stage where we can move on from this though. Is mankinds search for a meaning of god holding us back? Personally I think so.
Throughout history religion has held science back, religiion is all about old texts and following tradition - science is all about discovering new things and improving our understanding of the natural world.
Meaning of God is partly inspired by some reading I've undertaken, the Science of the Discworld Books, and Richard Dawkins 'The God Delusion' mainly. These books offer a very convincing argument that there is no god. Much of religion through the ages has been about wealth, control and power.
How many people searching for a meaning of god would have been so staunch in their belief if they'd lived a few centuries ago and were being tortured by the Spanish Inquisition?
