Reply #172: I think that's a slight misinterpretation of Campbellesque spirituality [View All]

[greyl]

Firstly, I love Joseph Campbell's work.
My take on his lessons is that all humans share a passionate experience of being alive that they express through aesthetic symbolism and intellectual abstraction, not that all concepts of God are true or even point in the direction of some Ultimate God.

If, as you suggest, every revelation of God through human consciousness indicates an at least dimly truthful apprehension of God, it follows that the God over whose name people kill is authentic.
If that's true, than God should be allowed no more moral authority over humans than the laws of gravity or thermodynamics.

"All the different cultures that believe in a deity consider their God(s) a deity/deities that is/are more powerful than humans."

Not really, that's a myth. ;)