Author: Paul Dehn Carleton
Publisher: Carleton House
Keywords: minded, skeptics, science, quest, prototheist, concepts
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 2004-03-10
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0974558303
ISBN-13: 9780974558301

Why is belief in God so common? This book is a search for the source of such beliefs, for the roots of theism, termed prototheism. Prototheism is a science of religion, not a religion. Its notion is that theistic belief is an age-old misconception of an Urge to Life which emerges naturally from deep in humans. This Life Urge is innate in all Life. But in us humans it emerges into consciousness where, rather than being owned as inherent in human nature, it is more often experienced as ‘faith’ and projected out onto gods/God. The book first looks at how belief in gods may have originated