Haha, I like that phrase very much.
IF you review the history of mankind, the concept of theism ‘progressed’ from animism, deity worship to polytheism, then to monotheism.
Its not quite that simple, and I have done extensive reviewing for over 20 years.
What is certain is that Shamanism preceded all other forms. All religion is a derivative of Shamanism.
The first Shamans became, by reputation, Gods.
As a child, it is natural the psychological security is covered by the parents but for adults who do they turned to?
It works the other way around just as powerfully. The parents are like the Titans to whom the child must rebel, finding “freedom”, i.e. psychological security. In such a case “faith in God” can represent the persons own matured conscience.
It kind of depends on the family.
In any case what is always real is faith. It is faith that drives people to work for God(s). Gods themselves don’t tend to be direct influences, not in the writings about them anyway. Invariably, the person to whom God is supposed to be talking does exactly the opposite of what God commands. I think this points to the struggle for conscience that religion represents.
The struggle to become aware of ones power to choose, the struggle with the enormous implications of a free act.
It was this existential crisis that compelled the early humans [adults] to seek some higher power than their own to give them that psychological security. At this point, no one was thinking of ‘things seem to come out of nowhere’ so there must be a creator.
Im glad you went back with the DeLorean to verify that. I couldn’t get the Fluxcapacitor to work.
Therefore what is fundamental is that inherent unavoidable existential crisis that is embedded deep in the pscyhe of humans.
I still like the phrase. But I don’t see you have done the work to really make this claim and prove it.
With that permanent inherent unavoidable existential crisis as the substance, the forms that humans came up with to deal with it vary with time and human consciousness and intellectual progress.
That thinking, ‘something cannot come from nothing, therefore it must be God’ is a very recent thought relative to human history. The fundamental of it is still the inherent unavoidable existential crisis on the psychological basis.
I agree the Torah is relatively recent to human history, but these stories do date from several thousands of years back. I any at the very least since a few thousands of years, say 3 to 4 minimum, times, this notion has held sway.
But indeed Shamanism is at least 60.000 years old.
The fact is when the inherent unavoidable existential crisis [mother of all dukkha] is dealt accordingly based on its ultimate psychological roots, there is no need for theism. This is why Buddhism [& others of the like] are non-theistic and so do have the negative baggage of theism.
And indeed Buddhism in its valid forms is Shamanism.
Meaning among other things that to engage the Void, one must engage first oneself, and transmute all ones energies. There is no Buddhism without Chi Kung. Or rather, all Buddhism without Chi Kung is vanity in the senses both of laziness and fallacious self-admiration.