and here , also , buddha has been anthropomorphized to a heavenly father , that protector from ill fate and harm , no different than our moslem brethren , especially in the south , to which the growing extremist fringe will assist the ruination of world civilization just as once they advanced astronomy98 and preserved greek thought in the era of christian lunacy.99from animism to polytheism and then briefly morphing to monotheism , and then monotheism once again emerging permanently from polytheism100 , man picked up cultural influences along the way : anubis , the egyptian deity , assisting souls of the dead for bodies that had not become putrefied in their journey to the afterlife101egypt giving us the heavens and greece giving us hades or hell.102 but a god , and a loving god at that , would not allow injustices to proliferate on the planet throughout the millennia ; and if he is an aristotelian god who sets all in motion and does not alter it even though he can , he has made himself irrelevant to man .