It's not that I think there absolutely is no God...I just think the concept of 'God' that many people have just can't exist.
I got to thinking about this in the car today when I was thinking about how crazy it is that people are calling it a 'miracle' that those three American girls got saved in Cleveland. I was like...what?! A miracle would have been them not getting kidnapped for 10 years in the first place!
Religious people think of God as this omnipotent, omnipresent omni- yadda yadda force, that 'created us' and who judges us and sends us to heaven or to hell and gives us free will yet commands us to worship him and make everyone else worship him, and creates fucked up things like coprophagia like the narcissistic, sadistic ass that he is. Religion separate us ; its a special clique that you belong to, and you're right and everyone else is wrong. This breeds hate and close-mindedness. And this view of God, who can hear your prayers but lets shit happen, or who tells us contradictions like forgive everyone but stone adulterers? This concept is unbelievable. Just....how? what? I can't accept it. I'm totally open to religion and the idea of a supernatural force. I think some good has come out of religion. But the concept of what God is, is very limited and ignorant. My God is everything and nothing at the same time. My God is my reality. And my God is love. Pretty sure that's a God most can accept..
I completely agree... I am quite a religious person myself.. in the sense that I believe in the virtues and morals that religions teach me and I follow them, However I believe that we are the cause of our own destiny, and thinking that god will provide everything that you ask for without putting any effort into achieving the results you want is unrealistic. I don't believe in a creator god for this exact reason, but instead believe that everyone has the potential to become a super human being and live by similar charecteristics we expect god to have (the realistic ones). God is a role model not a magician (in my eyes)
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