Most of my life I did not think about the concept of God. Then I was in a catholic university and the concept was thrust into my face. Under the guise of philosophy this university talk and taught religious principals, catholic only. Therefore I had to deal with what I really thought.
I came to the conclusion that there is no God. I wandered down the road of religion for a while, trying different churches and finding all bar one had nothing to do with spirituality. What they did have in common was their want to control.
It can be a lonely place when the decision is first made to accept the truth. In the beginning it made the world a less friendly place, and also what was the point of anything – but these were just stages that pass.
Taking God out of the picture lets one see the world a bit clearer. Life became more precious, well it would have too; I was no longer counting on the hereafter – basically as another life.
What do you think?
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The introductory quote to Part 2 of P2H says this:
Every day, people are abandoning the church and going back to God.
Lenny Bruce
I liked it. I’ve already got into fisticuffs with a Priest on another forum!
They say there is no such thing as bad publicity! It certainly didn’t do Dan Brown any harm…….
Hi, I read your article on no God, and thought I would share with you my views. I don,t believe in releigion and I don,t believe in the vatican and the pope. Because they keep riches and wear riches and don,t really share out there so called charities to the poor. If Jesus is to be believed he never once had any gold or luxurious or fancy buildings to live in. If this man existed what a great man he was with just his words and the clothes on his back. I don,t believe in the way christians behave as they preach about there beliefs and then when someone commits a sin they turn their back. I believe everyone commits and has commited sins there whole life and that mistakes are there for people to learn from. I believe everyone is given the thought that there is a god and believe people should search and discover the truth about god in their own world with out shouting look at me Im of this faith and that faith. I could tell you what I belive and what I,ve found out but then that would be to easy. So I say to you search your heart and soul and search for answers for yourself only and the rest will fall into place.
Thats what makes life interesting.
Free will is ours to make that decision.
I, for one, have given this much thought and looking at the evolution of the universe and our planet in particular have come to the conclusion that our set of circumstances has been created, yes, CREATED for a purpose. For us in other words.
Think of all the cataclysmic events that have happened throughout history and beyond prehistory to put us right here right now. 6 billion plus of us.
Yes there have been devastating disasters documented during recorded history but
nothing in the order of the end of the dinasaurs which helped to clear the way for mammilian life, and ultimately us.
Then you have trillions of tonnes of vegetation decomposed billions of years ago
to fuel our lives in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. And the greatest reserves of oil and gas are in the hands or underneath the lands of fundamentalist Muslims in the middle East and Christians in the southern U.S.
And the book of Revelations predicts a clash of titanic proportions in the Middle East.
Which is fairly likely when we’ve eaten into the remaining stocks of peak oil.
As a farmer I can confidentally predict you wont feed 7 million people on declining stocks of oil. But then again I’m a redneck and science will have invented something else by then.
Well they’d better friggin start soon.
Buen Camino,hombre. Hope to finish it this year 2010