Spinoza: How God, Bible were invented

God is an old white man, right, Michelangelo? - Sure, for the right price. Who's paying the piper?

Is the Bible a lie? Spinoza reveals how God was invented to control us

(Wise Daily Reflections) April 25, 2025: Is the Christian Bible a lie? Spinoza reveals how the Judeo-Christian God was invented to control people within the empire.

Who was the old Jewish God? (God: An Anatomy)

This video dives into one of the most radical and clear-sighted ideas in the history of philosophy: Baruch Spinoza exposes the political function of religion and explains how the twisted concept of God was constructed as a tool for control.

This is a powerful, timely, and unsettling analysis that challenges everything traditionally believed about faith.

God: An Anatomy

God made into an earthy Man

This is an astonishing and revelatory history that presents the Judeo-Christian God as "he" was originally envisioned by ancient worshippers -- with a distinctly male body, superhuman powers, and earthy passions.

Drawing on her academic expertise and scholarly examination of the Jewish-Christian Bible, University of Exeter Professor Francesca Stavrakopoulou (Ph.D., Oxford) paints a vivid portrait of a very human-shaped deity, a product of a particular society, a particular time, made in the image of the people who created him, shaped by their own circumstances and experience of the world.

This is a god of stunning surprise and complexity. Whether one is a believer or not, this fleshy uncensored (monotheistic) "God" has shaped our Western concept of life and death, our assumptions about sex and gender, even our perception of what it is to be a person.

Arresting, elegant and passionately argued, it is cultural history on a grand scale. More

• Author: Francesca Stavrakopoulou: books, bio, updates

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• Wise Daily Reflections, April 25, 2025; Prof. Francesca Stavrakopoulou; Sheldon S., Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly