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Well if you’re seeing through everything all the time then you aren’t seeing anything. You’ve gotta pick what you’re going to see and that precludes seeing what’s behind it. Unless we’re talking about some omniscience sense. But then that’s not seeing.
A Jewish friend once explained the yarmulke as just being polite to god. “He doesn’t want to look down and see that.” I had never thought of the crown of the head as an offensive area. 🤷♂️
But "god is everywhere all the time' so 'he' won't necessarily be looking down. he may be looking at you, or from below, behind, etc.
This 'god' is touted as having unlimited power; able to do anything. he would be able to not see what he wants, when he wants.
Religious 'rules' and stories make no sense. This 'god' flooded Earth but had noah build an ark with animals. Then he drowned everything on Earth. Mass genocide. Why drowned all the living? Are you not a 'god'? Why not just make people disappear? Did he not have an 'un-create' button on his laptop?
I wonder how ordinary people thought about this kind of thing 2000 years ago. Did they even have this notion of “god is everywhere?” They had no idea what the sky or stars were, so maybe they just thought god was literally up there. And did they have these elaborate kind teasers about omnipotence or did they just think god was vastly more powerful than us?
Fear is the beginning of all religions. They were afraid of the things they didn't understand, thunder, lightning, perpetual rain, drought. So these things were 'reasoned' away by assigning all the gods, zeus, poseidon, etc to be the overseer of those events. Eventually people thought worshiping and sacrifices 'fed' or calmed the gods. It is common in all religions and superstitions remain about many aspects of all religions.
Humanity is able to explain so much now. We no longer spend our time believing all the stories from the clergy, shamans, village leaders, we actually can verify facts.
We carry computers in our pockets, we are the gods now.