Did humans discover god or humans create god? Is God part of nature, or part of culture? Nature is what is there before the intervention of humans. Culture is that which comes into existence by the creation of humans or by the intervention of humans. Chair is our creation, Bangalore is our creation, and India is our creation.
One of the contemporary thinkers, Maithreyan, proposes, God does not exist is as incorrect as saying that chair in the classroom does not exist. God exists; and it is created by human categories. We say Bangalore exists, Bangalore is a human creation and today it exists. For other animals these categories of Bangalore or chair or money does not exist. They are all stories that we humans have created, and live by. God-stories give us hope and energy to do more; they prompt us to be more.
The more gods we create, the more certain we become about gods, the less divinity we will encounter. Leave gods alone; embrace humans: men, women and them; black, white and all colours; rich, poor, and the marginalised. Let us build humans and humanity; let us live a compassionate, inclusive, critical humanity. I believe that we attempting to be truly human will find us walking with gods; and if that attempt does not please the gods that we have known, walk alone.
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