God is the people

God loves and holds sacred the people, their country, and everything in it.

God loves and holds sacred the land and sky around the people.

God loves and holds sacred their beloved constructions.

God loves and holds sacred everything the people cherish.

But, above all, God loves and holds sacred anything for which people will sacrifice their life.

To understand how God can be the people, we must first understand homozygous peoples.  Homozygous people look alike.  The mother looks like the father, looks like the child, looks like the grandfather.  Today, the Japanese are a rather homozygous people.  The ancient Greeks were another homozygous people.   To explain who God is, we will use the ancient Greeks and Identical Twins research.

To begin, the Greek gods looked like the people (anthropomorphic).  If you went anywhere in Greece, the statues of the Gods all looked alike.  That is because the Greeks all looked alike (homozygous).  If you asked a Greek citizen what God looked like, he could say, "God looks like me".  In fact, if you wanted to know what a handsome man or beautiful woman looked like in ancient Greece, just look at their statues of Gods.  The sculptor used only the best models for their Gods.

God is the people idealized

If we look closely at Zeus and Menelaus, we see that they are different from their forehead down to their upper lip.  That is no accident.  The Greeks believed that a prominent forehead was a sign of intelligence and nobility.  So, they made the facial angle of Zeus 100⁰ and Menelaus 90⁰.  The actual facial angle of the average Greek was 80⁰.  The Greeks idealized both Zeus and their king.

Interestingly, 2000 years later, we now know the Greeks were right.  Science indicates that the frontal lobe is the place where forethought is processed in human intelligence.  It is the place where the thing that makes you You is located.

                                       Zeus                                   King Menelaus

Therefore, we can say that God is the people.  And, He holds sacred the people's churches, priests, altars, prayers, services, shrines, symbols, land and sky, their mountains, rivers, lakes, deserts, forests, moon and sun, their government, bridges, buildings, monuments, memorials, courts, and leaders.  And, that is just a few of the things that God hold's sacred, or holy.

God is everywhere

God knows everything

God is all powerful

• omnipresent

• omniscient

• omnipotent

These 3 attributes of God operated in Greek society, somewhat like this:

Omnipresent

If God is the people, and the people looked like their Gods, then the Greeks had a powerful feeling of God's presence every day.  To them God was everywhere.  They even believed that a stranger could be God because the Greeks believed that Gods sometimes walked among them.

Omniscient

Identical Twins research indicates that 80% of human behavior is genetic.  For that reason, Identical Twins not only look very much alike, but they also behave very much alike.  They also appear to know what each other is thinking or doing, even though they are miles apart.  The ability of Synchronous Twins to anticipate each other is astounding.  In fact, some research suggests that Identical Twins have telepathic abilities.  If that were true, then we can easily explain God's omniscience in a homozygous society.

Thus, in homozygous society, the community (God) is aware of the individual, and the individual is aware of the community.  Even one threatened Spartan in a far off land could cause the Greeks to go to war to protect him.  At least, that's what the Helen of Troy story tells us.  Helen was not a Trojan, she was a Spartan whom a Trojan prince kidnapped.  Her husband, King Menelaus, went to war. And, all of Greece went with him. 

Perhaps, the Joan of Arc story is actually about a 17 year old, illiterate, peasant girl who could feel the collective soul of her homozygous fellow countrymen.  How else can science explain her amazing and very well documented history?

Notably, on March 12, 1431, during her Trial Of Condemnation, Joan of Arc said these remarkable words in response to a line of questioning from her judges about her voices and angels, "They often come unseen among Christian people.  Often, I have seen them among Christian people."

If telepathic ability exists in homozygous societies, can you imagine the feeling of God's presence, the feeling of community, the feeling of brotherhood, the feeling of God's power, and the sharing of information that a monozygous (clone) people will experience in the future?  And, don't even think about laying a hand on one of them.

To express the idea another way, think of a closely knit family in primeval times.  Think how the family feels about the individual.  Think how the individual feels about the family.  Would the family fight to the death for the individual?  Would the individual lay down his life for the family?  Thus, the members of the family are very much aware of each other.  They are omniscient.  They have a tremendous feeling for each other, a feeling that perhaps can be telepathic.

To use another example, think about early Native American tribes.  Think how the tribe felt about the individual.  Think how the individual felt about the tribe.  They were extremely aware of each other.

Or, finally, think about Killer Bees (Apis mellifera scutellata).  Think about the hive's response to one of its members being attacked.

Omnipotent

The Greeks did not believe their Gods were all powerful.  Possibly, the Greeks were realists.  They realized that God (the community) can't do everything for us.  They realized that sometimes when people pray to God, they still get sick or die.  So, the Greeks created the Fates to explain this weirdness of life.  They believed that Fate transformed rich men into paupers and healthy men into invalids, or vice versa.  Perhaps, the Greeks are the ones who said, "God helps those who help themselves".

Therefore, the Greeks believed that God was very powerful and could help them, but sometimes Fate intervened and God was powerless to change what was predestined to happen to them.  They could not change their fate.

Interestingly, the Germans had a similar God named, Wyrd.  And, when life didn't go the way they hoped or expected, the Germans would say, that's Wyrd.

Nevertheless, the homozygous Greeks helped each other immensely, very much like the Amish or Hutterites do today.

We offend God

    We are sinful

        We are evil

            We are bad

                We are disrespectful

                    We are irreverent

                        We are immoral when we

• profane God, government established by the people, religious and state traditions and institutions.

• desecrate public (government) and religious property, buildings, or monuments.

• dishonor or disrespect friends, family, neighbors, and government (public) or religious officials.

The following are sacred to the people and therefore sacred to God. Anyone who desecrates, dishonors, or is irreverent to them offends God.

• Brooklyn and Golden Gate Bridges

• Hoover Dam and Holland Tunnel

• Empire State building and Old Sequoia

• Pennsylvania Turnpike and Erie Canal

• mighty Mississippi and the Great Lakes

• Rocky Mountains and Grand Canyon

• Liberty Bell and American Flag

• Independence Hall and Capitol Hill

• Mount Rushmore and Lincoln Memorial

• The memory and image of George Washington, Governor Al Smith, Sheriff Wyatt Earp, Stephan Foster, Gutzon Borglum, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Charles Lindbergh, and....

Today, the ancient Greeks are gone, and technology unites people from all over the world, each with their own religion.  If God is the people, but the people are diverse, how do we know which God to worship?  Or,

Can God exist in a diverse, multicultural society?

Yes, God exists in any society that has heroes.

Evolution has discovered that a species can survive better if its members subordinate themselves to the species.  For that reason, individuals within the species are genetically programmed to sacrifice their life for their family, for their neighbor, for their country.  These individuals are called Heroes.  To understand the strength of heroism, think of the honey bee's instinct to sacrifice its life for the hive.  Therefore, if God is the people, then

Heroes can and will worship their country as a God.

Heroes do not separate church and state.  God and country are one.

Every country that has heroes has God.

Without heroes, God does not exist.

No heroes, no God

Joan of Arc