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Inventing God
Book • 2014
In this book, Jon Mills presents a provocative argument that God does not exist and cannot exist as anything but an idea.
He contends that the concept of God is a manifestation of humanity’s denial and response to natural deprivation, serving as a self-relation to an internalized idealized object.
Mills delves into the psychological motivations behind humanity’s need to invent a supreme being, highlighting the failure to accept impending death and the delusion of divine presence.
As an alternative, he advocates for a secular spirituality that emphasizes the quality of lived experience, ethical self-consciousness, aesthetic and ecological sensibility, and authentic relationality toward self, other, and the world.
He contends that the concept of God is a manifestation of humanity’s denial and response to natural deprivation, serving as a self-relation to an internalized idealized object.
Mills delves into the psychological motivations behind humanity’s need to invent a supreme being, highlighting the failure to accept impending death and the delusion of divine presence.
As an alternative, he advocates for a secular spirituality that emphasizes the quality of lived experience, ethical self-consciousness, aesthetic and ecological sensibility, and authentic relationality toward self, other, and the world.
