Does the Existence of God Started on the Theology of Culture?
Some man and even the researcher believe that culture defines as that which reason, essential reason, produces. But man also treats culture imbued with religious significance, “Religion is the substance of culture, culture the form of religion.” Culture being a product of reason, thus assumes a fully “theological” implication. Man need to understand that there is a theological element in all thinking, hence a mystical apriori. All the culture does and has done presuppose the religious substance. All thought and praxis then are theonomous; this means dependent on a religious substance which expressed in all through science, philosophy, literature, art and the praxis of culture. Hence, culture, being praxis of reason, is grounded in the religious substance. How does God who is being-itself manifest himself in culture? The being itself in culture is structured symbolically through the practice or used of myth and enacted communally through the practice of cult. Again, man’s religion is substance of culture, culture the form of mans’ religions. In effect, the researcher wants to quote Tillich, where ones it was discuss on his subject on philosophy of religion, for Tillich the modern secular situation is a misunderstanding of both human being and culture. And this view of culture reverses the view of some philosophers, thinks that religion is merely a product of culture. Therefore, the existence of God is only a product of man. Man who created God it is not God who created man, this is because, man wants to have someone a perfect model, a model that will guide him in times of his difficulties. God then man then, created God, in order for him to have a focus in life. God is an illusion then, but it become real in mans, interpretation.
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