>>20016526Obviously no human is a god, every human is a human, it's just the human urge to "make oneself god", i.e. dominate and humiliate others. However, this urge is present in these believer-folk as well, which is why they say it. The mechanism is symmetrical: if someone feels pride he will try to make himself into god (in the "god-king" sense). Conversely, if people see someone who is impressive, they will make him out to be a god; it's the urge to submit, theologically expressed.
The conceptual problem with this is that every human interacts with the world through his body, and the body is a physical object not privileged as far as the laws of physics are concerned, which why all of these self-styled gods can be killed as easily as anyone else. The more abstract sense of "god" is "collective mythology", which would be these non-corporeal "gods" that exist in the mind of people. Here, the "god" obviously does not want to make itself god because it's a meme/something else, but the human urge to make it god is still operative, which is how people develop invisible gods and worship nothing in particular, basically.
However, we are "connected", to the "spirit-world", and thus every human has the "divine essence" (I don't vouchsafe all the superstitions people attach to this term) inside. In some people, it's expressed more clearly, in others less, a bit like how a window can be more or less smudged and let more or less light through. In some, this reaches the level of becoming a recognizable aspect of the personality, making the person seem "divine". It's a step above being a "wise man". A "divine nature" is not a second nature in conflict with a human nature, the two are orthogonal; it's like a complex number that has a second dimension, whereas people, being unaware of this, think that a "human nature" plus a "divine one" makes one have "2 nature", as if one added two real numbers together.
