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The Loss of God and the Decay of Society Part 1 – What is God?

June 29, 2023

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Art Used in this Video

Michelangelo - Creation of Adam (cropped)

Caspar David Friedrich - Kreuz an der Ostsee (Schloss Carlottenburg, Neuer Pavillon)

Ludwig Deutsch - At Prayer 1923

Khalili Collection Hajj and Arts of Pilgrimage Mss-1238

George Henry Durrie - Going to Church

Nyatapola painting by british painter

Brooklyn Museum - The Lord's Prayer (Le Pater Noster) - James Tissot

Illustration from the Daily Prayers of the Brahmins (1851) by Sophie Charlotte Belnos, digitally enhanced by rawpixel-com 21

American Tantric yogi

Job Confessing His Presumption to God Who Answers from the Whirlwind, object 1 (Butlin 461)

Hans Thoma - God the Father above the shed - 186563 MNW - National Museum in Warsaw

Ceiling "Council of the Gods" in Galleria Borghese (Rome)

God judging adam blake 1795

Cima da Conegliano, God the Father

De Grebber-God Inviting Christ to Sit on the Throne at His Right Hand

The Creation of Light - John Martin

Hieronymus Bosch - The Garden of Earthly Delights - The exterior (shutters)

Creation-Luther-Bible-1534

Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis - CREATION OF THE WORLD (II) - 1905 - 6, Varsuva

Francisco de Holanda, The Third day of Creation

Francisco de holanda-de aetatibus

Francisco de Holanda - Criação do Sol e da Lua - De aetatibus mundi imagines

Wenceslas Hollar - Creation of the earth (State 1)

The Creation (Lawrence W. Ladd)

Brueghel Jan II God creating

The Creation - George Graham

Halonen Going to church

Prayer in Cairo 1865

Caspar David Friedrich - Vision der christlichen Kirche (1920)

Saint Augustine by Philippe de Champaigne

Follower of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio - The Vision of Saint Jerome, 1960.13

Paul Falconer Poole (1807-1879) - Sketch for 'Vision of Ezekiel' - N02314 - National Gallery

Joakim Skovgaard - Christ in the Realm of the Dead - Google Art Project

Doménikos Theotokópulos (called El Greco) - Christ in Prayer - Google Art Project

Christ in Gethsemane

Cretey-Vision-Saint-Bruno

David Roberts - The Hypostyle Hall of the Great Temple at Abu Simbel, Egypt - Google Art Project

Samuel Palmer 005

Antonio Zucchi (1726-1796) - Capriccio with a Pagan Temple and a Sacrifice - 960067.2 - National Trust

Caspar David Friedrich, Morgen im Riesengebirge

Josef Čapek - Harmonikář (1919) 2

Hieronymus Bosch - Triptych of Garden of Earthly Delights (detail) - WGA2531

Carl Hasenpflug - Kirchenruine im Schnee -1853

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