Doe it really matter if God exists or not...?

[Edellus]

In they way most people discuss it; no. It's absurd.

I find it funny that subjects so abstract and with a deep foot on metaphysics, like religion and spiritualism, have been so reduced to fit in a discussion that is bordered by empiricism and positivism. It's like discussing colour with someone blind since birth; rather pointless. I find even funnier that some people like to think themselves as smart because they keep beating on a dead horse that was never alive to begin with. It's not like the other extreme isn't in that group either, but I would rather to be naive by following someone else's word than to be naive by my own ego.

God's existence is important, in a way, I think, but not in a literal-material way. God has never been either of those things, as far as we know. God has existed in human stories; we know God from stories first and then we know God from within us (some do, at least). So God exists, at least, in that form.

Continuing that we know God through stories, first, I have some more interesting questions, IMO:
- Why would multiple people at different stages of time decide to write down these stories?
- Why would people decide these stories are worth keeping for thousands of years?
- Were these stories creates as they were being written or were they probably sung or told through generations first?
- For what purpose? Maybe people thought there were some utility in them?
- What if these stories were distorted through time? Were simplified or dramatized?

I think God is a set of fundamental values, values to maintain us alive for the longest time and in the best possible conditions. Most of these values are obviously good for most of us, but it's not like we taught these values to ourselves. It took mankind thousands of years of trial and error to figure out these values, and the results needed to be passed through generations. There weren't always psychologists, anthropologists and philosophers and language wasn't created full featured from the start; these stories is the best people could do in those times, and they were good enough. Societies were founded on top of these principles and values and then perfected, so now we take them for granted. So, in a way, there's a part of God, in every one of us whether we like it or not.

But, as some people take their values for granted, and then proceed to try to form new values that have already been proven to fail in death and suffering multiple times, like communism. That's what happens when one throws away past experiences and take values as our own.

History should be the most important subject taught in educational institutions.