Quote Originally Posted by Vampiero
i trully dont think that god exists......before socrates there were several greek philosophers (whose name i dont remember and are too hard to spell lol) who thought that everything was made out of the four elements, water, wind, fire, earth......today we understand the concept of atoms and such......so isn't GOD just another way of explaining things that happen around us which until now were unexplainable.
I think you're misrepresenting the pre-socratics there. Before Socrates the elements were largely accepted but the debate was over what was the most fundamental. Thales concluded that everything was water. Heraclitus thought that which is most essential is the logos, "the word", the primordial fire within... The thing to realise is the Pre-socratics weren't trying to say that everything is just water persay, as much as to say the element of the divine in nature resided there.
Today we have our atoms and still don't understand virtually anything about the universe they are scattered into...
I think "god" or "the divine" or "the sacred" is just a way of refering to that which we understand, but could never explain.