Almost all the scriptures were written by men. As humans have a desire to live forever, religion provides attractive offers of life after death. Humans invented God, the superhuman, to answer all the ...
Many religious types are staunch supporters of the thought that God created humans. They argue that everything created has a beginning, and God is that beginning, the cause of everything that exists.
We hear today’s first reading, from the beginning of Genesis, so often as children that we know the story of how God created the world in six days, then rested on the seventh day. It’s a teaching ...