That's right, man created God, to try to justify the existence of the world and the natural phenomena that exist in it.
Therefore, each society or people will create or idealize its god... Buddha, Jehovah, Nzambi_Mpungo_Tulendo, Alã, etc., and with that, they will create their religions.
Now, to say that the true God is this or that, there is no such thing.
Every RELIGION in the world preaches what it thinks is best for human conscience in order to attract more people. There is no anthropomorphic God for all mankind. In the history of mankind, societies were conquered and invaded; in this invasion, the stronger people implanted their god in the weaker people and forced them to worship with forces of arms.
This is how it happened with Christianity in Africa. The Jewish myths had so much empathy among the nations, that it made even the Europeans pity and adopt them. They made the god of the Jews their God; and above all, after transforming and increasing the myths to their realities, they took it to Africa and applied it coercively attacking the vision of our spirituality in which we had nature!! This spiritual disconnection brought consequences to black people.
Today few Ngaga and few Nkissi manage to master the force of nature. Due to the implantation of Christianity, the Africans of our time stopped keeping in touch with their ancestors and having the domain of healing herbs as their ancestors had.
Currently, few people have the knowledge passed on by their ancestors. The ones that do are those grandmothers who sell traditional medicine in zunga. These still prevail the knowledge of their ancestors even the white consider their work as a spell or empirical knowledge.
The European enterprise was quite successful because they used the tactic of demonizing our culture, transforming our natural vision into theirs. This process of implanting an anthropomorphic god in the African mind took years and was passed from generation to generation until their children were alienated, and saw the god of Christianity as the only, true, and universal that can save humanity.
This you will never learn in school!!
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