by Lang Zaam

Created on: June 08, 2010

According to Baruch Spinoza God equals nature and I whole heartily agree with that conclusion. We, as in people are always looking for guidance and advise, which starts at very young age, from parents. Parents were young before as well and were instructed similarly, and so on.

Roterodamus Erasmus, of the Christian world, put his zeal into humanizing decision making at a time we would burn people at the stake. He knew enough to realize that a change was necessary and wrote dozens of articles about it at a time that the printing press was just invented. Most of his writing was in Latin and most people were illiterate anyway, the printed news still moving by horseback, very slowly. The system of 500 years ago had some bizarre ways of dealing with loose lipped people expressing truths. Reform is what Erasmus wanted and reform is what Martin Luther got.

All religious wisdom take their guidance from the respective holy books so the messenger for Christianity is the bible and the messenger for Islam is the Koran and simularly the messenger for the Jews is the Torah etc.

The message itself as per Bible, Torah or Koran is God, Allah or Yahweh respectively.  Of course there are many more religions then the three mentioned. Evolution is pretty well a scientific fact that begs the question from whom we received our guidance from some five hundred thousand years ago. From parents of course and parents that agreed with other parents for their own good and survival. There probably was a time we had not thought of a God, an Allah or Yahweh but we all had to deal with nature as it presented itself. Scary and pleasant depending on the circumstances.

Spinoza is right and many of us openly or silently agreed. Did Mozes, Jesus and Mohamed concluded this already too, thousands of years before Spinoza? If this commonality of God and nature was recognized this would be a bonus for democracy. Just imagine if all the books of wisdom are recognised as written by people to tell us how to behave.  All those different people involved to express rules and regulation for the purpose of advising us. All those rules and regulations for the people by the people consisting of old proved ways and new ones. Imagine no supreme being ever could have been involved, the writings of the Torah, Koran or bible all written by people, democratically.

So, yes, referring to God or Allah, as a supreme being, is the same.

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