Yes, deities (aka gods) are also affected by atheism. So
what do atheists have to do with them anyway? Read on to find out.
Deities and atheism: There is apparently few ways to
look at deities of the past through the lens of atheism. The first is
simply as tall tales/fairy tales. In this instance, the stories become
just that, stories that may impart lessons and morality, or simply act as
entertainment. Another was that these deities were once simply real
people with real accomplishments whose successes were elevated overtime and
elevated to a god like status. The best example is in Buddhism with the
Buddha who was a man that was elevated to a god. And finally, the other
method of view is that these deities were either super humans or aliens and
that the primitive peoples of earth worshipped them as gods. No, I am not
kidding as Adolf Hitler and his staff believed the ancient pagan gods were
supermen and that the Aryans were their descendants whose abilities and powers
were corrupted over time by impure blood. Needless to say, Hitler took
this to the extreme and also believed in the occult. If there are other
views on who and what these deities are I do not know. If you believe in
God, then you could even say that they were fallen angels that tried to rebel
and become gods of their own. In the end we all end up believing in
whatever we want and atheists can qualify whether any of them existed or not in
any way they wish.
Conclusion: The first and second seem like the
most likely scenario with respect to these deities and why they exist (my
opinion if I was thinking from an atheist's perspective). Reason being is
that the ancient us made people and their accomplishments into legends and then
added fake characters and made them just as great or greater for their
heroes/gods to overcome. In the end we have the gods of Japan, Olympus
and the north and more. Of course it would be really crazy if there
really were super beings/aliens, but we leave all these possibilities to
theory.
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