RELIGION

How Man Created God in his Image

Why I believe religion has it backward

L.A. Fosner
ILLUMINATION
Published in
6 min readDec 16, 2021

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Photo of a part of the ceiling of the Sistene Chapel.
Photo by Lukas Meier on Unsplash

We need to invent a new word. We need a word for people who realize there are certain things we’ll never know and who are willing to admit it.

I’m not an atheist — I don’t pretend to know there is no higher power. In fact, it’s obvious there is. Humans certainly aren’t in charge of the universe. We’re just the ones destroying it by ignoring the lessons of Mother Nature and behaving as if the planet is here for our personal benefit.

I’m not an agnostic because I’m fully committed to the belief that man invented God and not the other way around. I’m not willing to admit to the possibility that the God of any religion exists anywhere but in the minds of men.

It’s not that I don’t want to believe in God, it’s that my brain won’t let me.

I attended a Catholic University, so I was required to study religions of the world. My takeaway from that experience is that every religion was customized to fulfill the needs of the societies they served. The hypocrisy of religious zealots and the tendency to wage war in the name of God only substantiates this belief.

Religions were invented (except Scientology, and perhaps Mormonism) when people knew little about the natural…

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L.A. Fosner
ILLUMINATION

Writer/Activist/Humorist/Catalyst for Change. Dispelling the myth of white/male supremacy, and removing religion from government. ProLIFE, not ProBIRTH.