Chapter 40 Chapter 02 "Guilty", "Conscience Condemnation" and Others (23)

The above should be enough to explain the origin of "Holy God".A look at the Greek gods is enough to convince us that the idea of ​​a god need not necessarily produce this morbid imagining, this phenomenon which we cannot yet avoid; Europeans have known for thousands of years) a more noble method can be used to make up stories about gods.The Greek gods were the representation of noble and autonomous beings.In them the animal in man feels sanctified, not self-destructive, not angry with himself!These Greeks have long used their gods to evade conscience condemnation in order to be able to preserve the joy of freedom of the mind, that is to say, their understanding of gods is the opposite of the way Christianity uses its gods.These brilliant and courageous head boys, they've come a long way in this.An authority no less than Zeus himself in Homer has pointed out from time to time that they act too hastily, and on one occasion says (this is the case of Achistos, a very bad one):

"How strange! How can those mortals complain so loudly about us gods!" "They think all evil comes from us, but because of their ignorance and rebellion against fate, they create their own misfortune!" But the reader notices at once that even the spectator and lawman of Olympus by no means resented them or thought badly of them for it. "How stupid they are!" he thought as he saw the blunders of mortals. "Stupidity," "ignorance," and a little "insanity"—this is what the Greeks of the heyday sanctioned as the cause of much evil and disaster.Stupidity, not sin! ... Do you understand?However, those mental disorders are indeed a problem. "Yes, how can such a thing happen to us? We are some people of noble blood, happy life, good education, prominent status, noble temperament, and high moral character!" For many centuries, every time a noble Greek When a man has defiled himself with incomprehensible cruelties and vices, the rest of the Greeks will ask questions like this, and finally they will shake their heads and say, "He must have been fooled by a god." This is typical Greek As an excuse, the gods at that time justified the evil deeds of man to a certain extent, and the gods became the cause of evil.At that time, people were not punishing themselves, but punishing crimes in a nobler manner.