Logic vs Emotion

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This brings us logically to the question of 'who created whom.' (If you are thinking 'your logic' you are quite correct: I write this stuff. You read.)

I claim that man created god in his own image. I claim that the telltale signs of this can be found in the bible. I claim furthermore that it is an emotional thing. You go to the bible in a certain emotional state and there you find what you are looking for. What you return with after an extended visit to the bible defines you, or at least your emotional state. In that sense the bible is an emotional sounding board. Same with the Koran. Same with all other religious books. All books!

Have you ever read The Origin of Species? No? Neither have I. But I have no doubt that we would approach that book from opposite emotional positions, and that our relative positions would define our eventual evaluations of the book unless... logic was able to overcome emotion. It happens rarely but it happens.