Michael Rynn
1 min readJan 29, 2023

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By definition, Monotheistic god is beyond our understanding. Therefore I shall never believe what I shall never understand, but as an atheist I believe there is plenty stuff permanently beyond our understanding, and we have biases, limits and capacity for self-delusion. Non-belief does not deny failure of understanding. A Monotheistic God is simply a conceit of human self-delusion, encouraged by nation-state propaganda, that we and humanity matters, to aid our group tribal survival and cohesion. We delude ourselves we have some sort of communication going on with global complexity, when we talk to our selves and language peers. Global information complexity is unknowable by any entity smaller than whole, made up of complex parts that are unknowable by the whole.

If such a God might exists, as living entity, in some way like us, then it is not on anyone's side, and is likely to be both unknowing, unaware, and uncaring, emergent creature from properties it does not understand, about so much, as much we are unaware of the individual cells in our bodies. The specific content of our religious beliefs are aids for social group survival. Human cohesive strong groups are limited in size to little more than a hundred, so plenty of scope for variance between groups.

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Michael Rynn
Michael Rynn

Written by Michael Rynn

Once was educated and worked in Medical Practice, then did software engineering. Now retired. Still doing music, reading and writing, and website tinkering

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