Can_Religion_Now_Dispense_With_God

Can Religion Now Dispense With God Can religion now dispense with God' This might well seem to many to be a particularly stupid question somewhat akin to the suggestion that trade unionism can dispense with politics for instance, to conceive of a religion without a god is ludicrous. However it can be argued that from the beginning Christianity has been modelling itself to a philosophical and deistic view of creation rather than one necessarily rooted in god, that is to say their conception of god is rooted in reason rather than revelation and god is seen not from the standpoint of a redeemed church, but according to certain presuppositions about the nature of the world and the manifestation of the cosmos as found in man. If we look to the three principles of the Greek philosophical exploration of the nature of the divine, that is to say God as origin, the unity of god and the notion of ‘otherness’ of God, the latter two which follow as corollary to the first then it is quite clear that religion and god are not two interdependent concepts, one can conceive of an ultimate reality without religion being a necessity and in fact the masses can worship through their popular god, religion, world, through, reality, ultimately, one, must, divine, should, concept, away, ultimate, things, buddhism, without, two, though, suggest, social, seen, needs, hence, expression, existence, essentially, understood, understanding, suggests, say, salvation, reason, rational, rather, question