Beliefs are not truth, they are beliefs,
We all swear by our belief, protecting and nurturing it like a child,
So why this urgent warning?
Every tribe has its own belief system, a narrative which binds the tribe,
Follow it and go far, deny it and be sent into exile,
The belief dominates the tribe above all else,
Every tribe has its own dominant belief, it's everything for the tribe,
When two beliefs collide, we're instantly in danger,
Two tribes, are now in conflict,
The motive for believing is protection given by the tribe,
My tribe closes ranks to protect me from other beliefs,
But choosing to reject all beliefs is a lonely place to be,
The need for social comfort is great, the desire to belong irresistible,
People are willing to boost the death toll of their own people,
Rather than to escape the belief,
The excess death toll is the price we pay for the comfort of beliefs,
Thats' not to say that beliefs have no utility,
It is to say, that in every age, beliefs are at war with God.
Notes: I do not believe in God. I have no religion. Do you understand?
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Would Jung say that God is an archetype?
Yes—but with an important qualification.
Jung would say that the human psyche contains an archetype of God, or more precisely an archetype of the Self that commonly produces images and experiences of divinity. This archetype represents psychic wholeness: the integration of the conscious personality with the much larger unconscious psyche.
He was not simply saying, “God is imaginary.” Jung carefully distinguished between:
God as an ultimate metaphysical reality, whose existence psychology cannot prove or disprove.
The God-image within the psyche, which psychology can observe through dreams, visions, myths, symbols and religious experience.
For Jung, the God-image is psychologically real because it can transform people, overwhelm the ego and organise an entire life. Whether that inner image corresponds to a genuinely transcendent God remains a philosophical or theological question.
His typical position could therefore be paraphrased as:
Psychology cannot establish what God is in himself, but it can establish that humanity encounters powerful, recurring images of God within the psyche.
Jung often connected this God-image with the archetype of the Self, but he did not regard the two concepts as straightforwardly identical. The Self is the psychological concept; “God” carries metaphysical and religious claims extending beyond psychology.
Applied to your image, Jung might interpret “humanity at war with God” psychologically as the ego rebelling against the Self: conscious humanity resisting the deeper moral, spiritual and integrating authority arising from within the total psyche. The conflict is perennial because every age is tempted to make its own power, reason, technology or ideology absolute.