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Tuesday, November 1, 2005
2:36:00 PM EST
Feeling Quiet
Hearing the sound of a southwest windAlone Again.....Naturall
Someone once wrote to me:
<<It actually takes more guts to believe what you don't see, than to rely on only what you can.>>
Guts to believe in a God who cares for everything you do, who is with you always, who will gather you home upon death, who will punish those who do evil to you for all eternity? That isn't guts, that is eternal parental security for those who believe, and who want a parent to always be there for them. To perceive THAT as a reality, as do most of the people in North America, does not take guts.
It takes guts to say...there is no deity, I am on my own, I am to blame for my faults and mistakes and I have to pick my own self up and start over. I have to deal with those who are evil to me in this one life I have.... and I will no longer exist when I die. The only ones I can count upon are other humans who have something in common with my life, but they need to count on me too...and that is how society works.
Life stares us all in the face, and we all have a choice. (not free will but an illusion of choice). Sometimes life sucks big time, and we gotta get up and keep going. Sometimes some of us don't make it. Sometimes some of us need assistance, and the number one form of assistance is deity belief. What ever it takes to get you through...... but a whole bunch of humans do it with only human assistance.
Of course not all theists are christians. Other people's gods comfort them and guide them, and they are just as real to them as God is to christians. And they are just as non-real to me.
With or without deity belief, humanity is going to evolve into one family. It is the future, the future of human beings. Just call me...Pollyanna.
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2:36:00 PM EST
Feeling Quiet
Hearing the sound of a southwest wind
Alone Again.....Naturall
<<It actually takes more guts to believe what you don't see, than to rely on only what you can.>>
Guts to believe in a God who cares for everything you do, who is with you always, who will gather you home upon death, who will punish those who do evil to you for all eternity? That isn't guts, that is eternal parental security for those who believe, and who want a parent to always be there for them. To perceive THAT as a reality, as do most of the people in North America, does not take guts.
It takes guts to say...there is no deity, I am on my own, I am to blame for my faults and mistakes and I have to pick my own self up and start over. I have to deal with those who are evil to me in this one life I have.... and I will no longer exist when I die. The only ones I can count upon are other humans who have something in common with my life, but they need to count on me too...and that is how society works.
Life stares us all in the face, and we all have a choice. (not free will but an illusion of choice). Sometimes life sucks big time, and we gotta get up and keep going. Sometimes some of us don't make it. Sometimes some of us need assistance, and the number one form of assistance is deity belief. What ever it takes to get you through...... but a whole bunch of humans do it with only human assistance.
Of course not all theists are christians. Other people's gods comfort them and guide them, and they are just as real to them as God is to christians. And they are just as non-real to me.
With or without deity belief, humanity is going to evolve into one family. It is the future, the future of human beings. Just call me...Pollyanna.
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