Jacque Fresco - How humans invented God

0:00 Although man for centuries had been fighting one another, they all evolved under different cultures, different conditions, and they invented words. In the early days, most of the words that were invented had to do with the food they can eat. And the food that they didn't eat, they had no name for. They only name things that they used like a javelin or bow and arrow or uh certain types of fruit that they can eat. But they didn't name all the plants. They just named the things they had used to used for. And the customs that would that evolved were based upon questions asked by people. Where did all

0:46 this come from? So I figured somebody made it because they made everything. They made their tents, their equipment, their cooking equipment out of coconut shells. And they figured maybe somebody up there in the clouds made it. And uh they try to figure out what this god was like, which they call the god, the creator. And so they put human attributes in it. They said he probably worked for six days and rested. But they didn't know that night and day was caused by the rotation of the earth. That's how you got night and day. When it was away from the sun, it was night. When it was toward the sun, it was day.

1:32 So they said that it took six days to make the earth. That would mean it was turning while God was making it. So man didn't was not well enough in form to even create a god. The gods that they created were more like man. They got angry. They hurt people. They But then for evil stuff, they didn't want to put it on God. So they made an evil guy called Satan. And he creates all evil. He's a tempter. He tempts people. Where did Satan come from? God made him, too. And God was always testing people. You know, since they tell you, at least in church, that God is omnipotent. He knows

2:19 everything. He doesn't have to test you. He would know what you would do under varying circumstances. So, the reason I don't like the Bible because it's offensive. It's very simple. And the kind of gods they make are as stupid as the people that create them. Uh so I can't accept most of that because it doesn't make sense. It doesn't correlate with anything. It doesn't fit in with nature. They said nature is harmonious. Now I don't know what they mean by that because every fish is eating every fish smaller than that. Every flower has bugs eating them. Every tree has all kinds of parasites on them. So I don't know what nature is

3:04 harmonious means. There are hurricanes, earthquakes, that's all nature and certainly is not harmonious. But this is man in his stupidity. He would like to believe that nature is harmonious. And so he invents a god who gets angry and tells Noah to build an ark. And don't forget each tribe develops a language which is appropriate to the conditions they grow they grow up in. And so when one tribe meets another tribe, he says, "How are the four gods doing?" Guys, there's no four gods, there's two. And so they get into a fight. They get into a fight not over reality. They get into a fight about

3:51 their own projections. Do you understand what that means? They get into fights due to their own projection. Now, if a man wears a different kind of hat instead of feathers, they say, "What kind of suit is that?" Only feathers make a good hat. And they think it's real. All man-made laws are artificial. All the stories in the Bible are made up. The concept of God, his angels, or fallen angels, all made up by ignorant people. people that wanted to believe that there's something more to human beings than what you see. There's a soul and that soul leaves the body and death

4:39 and ascends into heaven. They use the word ascends because they used to think the earth was flat. You can only go up. Well, if the earth is round, how do you ascend into heaven? When the pope comes to America, he points to God. or he goes to Chinese pointing the wrong way. It doesn't make sense. It's dishonest or poorly informed. I would say the pope is poorly informed. And the pope being carried around with a gold hat and by other people would be to me antichrist because Christ would never want to be carried around. If there was a soft bed, I think Christ would say, "You sleep in it, I'll sleep on the floor.

5:24 That's the kind of human being or kind of person I believe Christ was. I believe believe he existed at all. He was sincere and he tried to help people with whatever tools he had. And he really believed that God and man were one. That a bit of God dwelt in all people and all of nature. And God was not in a holy building. He was all around. And if he was all around, you didn't have to go to church. You can pray from where wherever you're at. If a coal miner is trapped in a coal mine, he prays. He doesn't wait till he gets out and goes to church. So man restricts God. He says God has a lot of problems

6:11 with man. He gets angry because man doesn't behave right. I would imagine if he made man, he would know how he behaved. I'm not saying this. The Bible says God knows everything. So if he if he really knows everything, he wouldn't have ever gotten angry at man no matter what he did because he'd know everything. So the stories in the Bible contradict the concept of God. And so man is really too simple to understand a God that be highly creative and sharp intellectually. The average person can't talk to Einstein. They can't talk to engineers. They can't talk to people that understand navigation or

6:59 astronomy. And they claim to talk to God. If they talk to God, I've never heard anything God said to them. They never asked God, "How can we get rid of cancer? How can we get rid of heart disease?" And and uh some people actually believe that people were put here to honor and worship God. Tell them how great thou art and you say good God is good. God is magnificent. And that's all they do is praise the Lord. And they praise the Lord because they're taught to do that. And to question it is a sin. So how are you going to grow up? How we going to change