Religion and Spirituality

There is one logical way of solving the riddle: to argue that there is a single omnipotent God who created the entire universe – and He’s evil. But nobody in history has had the stomach for such a belief.

A leading theory about the origin of the gods argues that gods gained importance because they offered a solution to this problem. Gods such as the fertility goddess, the sky god and the god of medicine took centre stage when plants and animals lost their ability to speak, and the gods’ main role was to mediate between humans and the mute plants and

So, monotheism explains order, but is mystified by evil. Dualism explains evil, but is puzzled by order.

Religion can thus be defined as a system of human norms and values that is founded on a belief in a superhuman order.