SM: How can people believe in an old man sitting on a throne?
E: There are people that honestly believe that. As to how or why we would have to ask them. The question might be how or why anyone believes anything.
E: I, for example, honestly believe that the earth is a sphere that goes around the sun. I cannot say that I have empirical evidence for that belief yet nonetheless I believe it. Someone, who I accept as an authority, taught that to me.
E: It may be that a God is a reflection of the society that created HIM in its own image. An andocentric society with a King might have an old man on a thrown as its God.
E: Kings in general and some presidents like to surround themselves with sycophants who pledge their loyalty and say things like, “Gosh you’re wonderful”.
Supreme rulers tend to be like that.
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SM: As a He, who sits and really, does nothing but what people tell him to do in their prayers?
E: Primitive pagan religions had a Mother earth and a Father in heaven as the two aspects of God. The mother father polarity was not about gender. The father was penetrating (the giver) and the mother was receptive (the receiver). Together they made the ONE.
E: The single male god comes from the andocentric Abrahamic religions.
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E: “Our Father who art in heaven halo be thy name.” Halo (Helios) be thy name. Helios (the sun) was the father in heaven. The pagans were sun worshipers and the worshiped the Sun of God. The Holy (Helios) Bible (book), the book of the sun predates Abraham by a few millennia. Later personifications changed the Sun of God into the Son of God.
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E: The sun of god is born on the 25th day of what is now called December. The sun had been steadily moving north since the equinox and on the 21st day of December it stops (solstice) and on the 25th day it starts it is reborn and starts moving south again.
E: On December 25th the three stars on the belt of Orion (also known as the three kings) line up with Sirius ( the star of wonder) and point to the place in the east where the sun (son) rises (is born).
E: I cannot document this but it is what I believe and when I can document I will site my source. Until then it makes as much sense as an old man on a throne. …Maybe more.