God Is Simulacra
God is Simulacra
Before Christianity and God became so popular in today’s society, our ancestors, the Neanderthal’s worshiped over the Venus of Willendorf, or better yet, the Earth Mother. Yet through the years this voluptuous figure became more then just the Earth Mother, but so many other kinds of gods. So, eventually she became this driving force known as the Christian Faith and their leader, God. In the Bible, God says not to worship any other idols or icons in his place or it will be all damn nation for such worshiper. What does God have to be afraid of to say such a thing? Doesn’t he himself realize that he is only and idea, a mere idea that people created so long ago, to the Neanderthal’s used the Earth Mother as, for security, fertility in land, and so on. God is nothing more than simulacra himself.
In all reality Religion is nothing but an illness, as Jean Baudrillard says about illness “Someone who simulates an illness produces in himself some of the symptoms” (Baudrillard 2). Religious people create themselves a “sickness” to create this desire, or need to have religion in their lives. And since there really is no true cure for religion besides atheism not many people fall out of this mental illness that have grown to acquire. “For if any symptom [religion in this sense] can be “produced,” and can no longer be accepted as a fact of nature, then every illness may be considered as simulatable and simulated, and medicine loses its meaning since it only knows how to treat “true” illnesses” (Baudrillard 2). Since God is nothing but simulation, and the idea of any other kind of deity is all just simulation, then there is no true cure for religion.
Another thing Baudrillard notes on is that the Iconoclasts’ “rage to destroy images rose precisely because they sensed this omnipotence of simulacra, this facility they have of erasing God suggest: that ultimately there has never been any God” (Baudrillard 3). If God were real, then how could people...
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