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http://paradigm-shift-21st-century.nl/consciousness-and-understanding-definition.html

We were not created in God’s image

Rather

We create (understand) God in our own image.

The almost irresistible impulse of transference

In the face of the bare necessity of existence.

Exactly!

I mean, I really do see a dialectic there

Not toward a Creator per se

But toward a spiritual ontology.

IN-God : the ontology
OF-God : the phenomenology

By the way

This is one of the reasons why

I am so fond of the term "Christian atheist".

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I mean, how can one deny the transference in Christology?
Christ literally means "anointed"; anointed by whom?
Christians refer to Jesus as the divine anointed one
Precisely because in the story of his life and death
Is found an ideal object of transference
To meet our faltering image of ourselves
Thus showing one's own desire for immortality
Of which our transference object must then surely have!

But there is a positive way to put this
Jesus was a man who preached unmediated access to God (IN-God)
Christ is the way we remember him for that
And Christianity is the way we strive to be like Jesus (OF-God)
And hence resurrect him in our lives and to each other
When we live into his teachings and example about God.

But in that sense, of course, humans work to resurrect
Any figure we seek to honor; Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Gautama Buddha...
But I think this is a very good and worth-while thing for humans to do.
To me it is the essence of spirituality and spiritual culture.