ARE ZEUS AND THOR FORGOTTEN GODS

I read somewhere the Atheists argument that if God was so omnipresent and forever how come no one worships Thor and Zeus, the Gods who were so powerful just a few centuries ago.

What Atheists forget is that the names of Gods like Zeus, Thor and others are just a way of making Gods look human.

Why? You will ask, of course. Why try to humanize God?

I tried to analyze it and my personal explanation is that the attempt to humanize God was made to make people aware of the various attributes and powers of God.
It is clear that appearances are important and even atheist are ready to convert if they can see God. If the educated class (that is what Atheist try to project themselves as) also believe only in the existence of objects that can be seen how can they not understand the needs of the less privileged.
Our ancestors understood this very well that it is easier to explain to people with form. The recognizable attributes were given form to make people connect directly with God.

Slowly, people forgot the purpose of the creation of form for Gods and started worshiping the idols. It is convenient for certain sections that people get attached to idols and forget that God is formless, omnipresent and most powerful.

Religion which starts as a way of life becomes a slave of rituals and diminishes the sanctity of the thought of God.

When people realize that the forms are not needed to worship the forms loose their importance . Zeus and Thor are forms which outlived their utility as people understood that the attributes that Thor and Zeus represent are actually part of the same God everyone wants to be close to.

Zeus and Thor and several other forms just represent the attributes of God who is formless, omnipresent and all powerful.

Manoj