04-20-2007, 04:04 AM
I do appreciate however your concern for the way my life may end but I donât think itâs any of your business and I donât see when and where that makes me a god of any sort. I would be interested in knowing what you seem to know that I donât and that is how my life will end, in your opinion; it can only be your opinion of course unless you have direct access to god yourself.
Yes I do declare that religion is irrational and nothing else because it is easily demonstrated. What seams to bother you and those who have your convictions is that you cannot conceive of believing in god without religion. But it is very liberating and certainly not depressing. I donât have to live in a world in which I have to drag my God around because of some sort of permanent guilt syndrome.
Your God menaces on a permanent basis. I ask you, how can you live in that kind of permanent guilt trip? On the contrary, I do not fear per se my God, I am in good terms with him. This is a concept that you cannot understand because you are prisoner of a dogma dictated by your religion.
The problem is, your religion does not know God any better than I do but once again I do not proclaim to know the truth, I still seek it every day. I do know that I will not find it in religion. But I do pray every day, how about you?
I believe that prayer should be an intimate and private relationship between us and God (or what we perceive as God) and not to be indecently exposed in public. Some people indulge in public prayer like some harlots indulge in public exhibition of their bodies and these people âwear their prayerâ as if it were a badge.
A very wise Native American, Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce nation once said, in 1873; âWe may quarrel with men sometimes about things on earth, but we never quarrel about the Great Spirit. We do not want to learn that (from the Catholics or the Protestants)â.
If democracy and freedom are so important to modern man, why then do so many people still enchain themselves to religions that dictate their relationship to god(s)? The truth is, religion is the antonym of freedom and of democracy in our relationship to God. There has never been, in the history of mankind a more totalitarian institution than institutionalized religion.
No religion can be authentic if it forbids analyzing the Creator or the Creation and especially under the express threat of some sort of divine punishment. If there is a Creator of any dignity and mercy, He can certainly not punish anyone who uses the brain they were given to analyze and question the world we live in and itsâ creator.
âI do not feel obliged to believe that some God who endowed us with sense, reason and intellect had intended for us to forgo their use.â
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
Yes I do declare that religion is irrational and nothing else because it is easily demonstrated. What seams to bother you and those who have your convictions is that you cannot conceive of believing in god without religion. But it is very liberating and certainly not depressing. I donât have to live in a world in which I have to drag my God around because of some sort of permanent guilt syndrome.
Your God menaces on a permanent basis. I ask you, how can you live in that kind of permanent guilt trip? On the contrary, I do not fear per se my God, I am in good terms with him. This is a concept that you cannot understand because you are prisoner of a dogma dictated by your religion.
The problem is, your religion does not know God any better than I do but once again I do not proclaim to know the truth, I still seek it every day. I do know that I will not find it in religion. But I do pray every day, how about you?
I believe that prayer should be an intimate and private relationship between us and God (or what we perceive as God) and not to be indecently exposed in public. Some people indulge in public prayer like some harlots indulge in public exhibition of their bodies and these people âwear their prayerâ as if it were a badge.
A very wise Native American, Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce nation once said, in 1873; âWe may quarrel with men sometimes about things on earth, but we never quarrel about the Great Spirit. We do not want to learn that (from the Catholics or the Protestants)â.
If democracy and freedom are so important to modern man, why then do so many people still enchain themselves to religions that dictate their relationship to god(s)? The truth is, religion is the antonym of freedom and of democracy in our relationship to God. There has never been, in the history of mankind a more totalitarian institution than institutionalized religion.
No religion can be authentic if it forbids analyzing the Creator or the Creation and especially under the express threat of some sort of divine punishment. If there is a Creator of any dignity and mercy, He can certainly not punish anyone who uses the brain they were given to analyze and question the world we live in and itsâ creator.
âI do not feel obliged to believe that some God who endowed us with sense, reason and intellect had intended for us to forgo their use.â
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)