GA: "The God concept was created by Europeans in the past few hundred years." That ridiculous. Your wrong. I simply don't know where you get such nonsense. Anyway, you're sticking with it and that's fine. I'm just here to point out that there is a a valid, different way of considering the notion of god in the context of human history.
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“We want to think about God. God is a thought, God is an idea, but its reference is to something that transcends all thinking. I mean, he’s beyond being, beyond the category of being or nonbeing. Is he or is he not? Neither is nor is not. Every god, every mythology, every religion, is true in this sense: it is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery. He who thinks he knows doesn’t know. He who knows that he doesn’t know, knows. There is an old story that is still good — the story of the quest, the spiritual quest, that is to say, to find the inward thing that you basically are. All of these symbols in mythology refer to you — have you been reborn? Have you died to your animal nature and come to life as a human incarnation? You are God in your deepest identity. You are one with the transcendent.” – Joseph Campbell
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