Virtually every human society has some form ofmythto explain the origin of morality. In the Louvre in Paris there is a black Babylonian column with a relief showing the sungodShamash presenting the code of laws toHammurabi(died c. 1750bce), known as theCode of Hammurabi. TheHebrew Bible(O...
Andrew Lang, a Scottish folklorist, challenged thisconceptionof the development of religious ideas, for he found in the writings of anthropologists, ethnologists, and travellers evidence of a belief in a supreme being orhigh godamong cultures that had been classified as the most primitive. This ...
God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show. — John Polkinghorne 27 Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material...