The President of the Museumsgesellschaft, Professor Gerald Urban, did it again. In 2017, he talked about What the Hell is Religion? On April 8, 2024, he discussed only the "God" question in this lecture.
The starting point was the Abrahamic theological God of Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam. Do all three major world religions worship the same
God? Is the loving Father God of Christians identical to the intolerant God of
Jews and Muslims?
This "modern" monotheism with a "personal" God is only shared by 45% of the world's population, not including Hindus, Buddhists, Confucians, etc., and, of course, atheists and agnostics.
Although the three world regions have the same progenitor, they consider their God the only true one. Despite all the lip service paid to tolerance, this "ideological" God has led and will continue to lead to bloody conflicts.
"Scholars" have always tried to prove God. Red Baron has only casually followed these proofs but has realized that the existence of God cannot be proven. Professor Urban devoted much of his lecture to these efforts and showed that circular reasoning is involved in all cases.
Philosophers have been trying to understand God for three millennia. Professor
Urban pointed out a line running from Plato, Plotinus, and Dionysus to Meister
Eckhart.
- No statements about the "philosophical" God are possible and only compatible with an ontological rape of the "theological" God. The latter arose from the "historical" gods.
Creator beings are conceivable!
- The Abrahamic God is the basis for our "cultural group" God (art) - and "normative ideological" God (the scriptures)
- The "personal" God offers destinations of longing
- Mysticism is global
Here follows one remark by Einstein on a possible creator God:
There is harmony in the cosmos, which I can recognize with my limited human mind, yet some people say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me to support such views ... I am not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist ... but there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes from the same source.
Many who deal with the question of God tend to find their "personal" rather than an "ecclesiastical" God. But calling their own God a father in the face of a suffering creation is another step, and that Einstein did not take.
This "modern" monotheism with a "personal" God is only shared by 45% of the world's population, not including Hindus, Buddhists, Confucians, etc., and, of course, atheists and agnostics.
Although the three world regions have the same progenitor, they consider their God the only true one. Despite all the lip service paid to tolerance, this "ideological" God has led and will continue to lead to bloody conflicts.
"Scholars" have always tried to prove God. Red Baron has only casually followed these proofs but has realized that the existence of God cannot be proven. Professor Urban devoted much of his lecture to these efforts and showed that circular reasoning is involved in all cases.
For centuries, theologians have tried to understand the concept of God. Is God
(he, she (?), it) the highest or the deepest we can think of? Professor
Urban's two following slides show the paradoxes that result from such reflections.
The above slide, "Never completely describable and definable!" introduced
the "scientific" God.
With the development of science, the "Creator" God of the Old Testament has been pushed further and further back in time, and that is not only due to the Darwinian theory of evolution. Now that we have a better understanding of the universe and can mathematically describe its development back to the Big Bang, the question remains: What was before the Big Bang?
To this end, some physical models consider a fluctuation in an energy field*, the "potential quantum mechanical everything," as the trigger for the Big Bang. Such a theory does not rule out several big bangs and, thus, the emergence of several universa. There are no limits to the imagination for daring hypotheses.
*in analogy to the formation of galaxies in the cooling phase of our universe.
Here is Professor Urban's summary of his impressive lecture:
With the development of science, the "Creator" God of the Old Testament has been pushed further and further back in time, and that is not only due to the Darwinian theory of evolution. Now that we have a better understanding of the universe and can mathematically describe its development back to the Big Bang, the question remains: What was before the Big Bang?
To this end, some physical models consider a fluctuation in an energy field*, the "potential quantum mechanical everything," as the trigger for the Big Bang. Such a theory does not rule out several big bangs and, thus, the emergence of several universa. There are no limits to the imagination for daring hypotheses.
*in analogy to the formation of galaxies in the cooling phase of our universe.
Here is Professor Urban's summary of his impressive lecture:
Compatibilities of the "GOD" concepts
- No statements about the "philosophical" God are possible and only compatible with an ontological rape of the "theological" God. The latter arose from the "historical" gods.
Creator beings are conceivable!
- The Abrahamic God is the basis for our "cultural group" God (art) - and "normative ideological" God (the scriptures)
- The "personal" God offers destinations of longing
- Mysticism is global
Here follows one remark by Einstein on a possible creator God:
There is harmony in the cosmos, which I can recognize with my limited human mind, yet some people say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me to support such views ... I am not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist ... but there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes from the same source.
Many who deal with the question of God tend to find their "personal" rather than an "ecclesiastical" God. But calling their own God a father in the face of a suffering creation is another step, and that Einstein did not take.
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