this is one reason why i picture god as a lion...a mighty force man is simply not a good enough image or as descriptive for someone so powerful
No, I don't believe in God. Why would I? To explain the afterlife? I'm not going to comfort myself with a delusion just so I can feel better about death. To give life meaning? It's meaningless. In my own view on the world, I feel that human life has no big "meaning", and to believe it does is just deluding yourself. We (humanity) are just monkeys (ok, apes) who have gained self awareness. Once we made that jump we couldn't accept that our own existence and being is insignificant and pointless, so we search for the "meaning" behind our lives, whether that be spirituality or not, because that gives us a reason to live. Yet the reality is merely that we're just overly intelligent beings no different from any other species. It is denial. Even when you look at religions over time, they always make a point to set humanity apart and make us special in some way, whether it be that we were created in the image of god, or that we were created to be the caretakers of the world. Maybe we're just so self-centered we can't accept that we're not divine. The same thing can go with the idea that we have an afterlife. I mean, how could we accept that we are these god like creatures when we can just die like any other species. So now we get eternal life. Look at the motivations for these things, and it's sort of obvious. We're just conceited. PS) I don't mean to offend anyone. This is just my philosophical take on it and I may just be a cynic.
I believe in Theoism I guess man. I'm Theo an' its an' ism, that stuff I believe, so I'm calling it Theoism.
I'm not really sure on what I believe. All that I know is that either everyone I know has the worst luck in the world, or there's some omnipotent malevolent being influencing our lives. However, there is definitely no "God" as the bible describes it.
There's too much emphasis put on religion being a type of "club." Religion and spirituality are things that one must find on their own and practice on their own (in my opinion). When one submits themself to a religious group or sect then they stop having faith in a divine presence and start having faith in the Church they attend. All of a sudden, there are all these rules that must be followed that are often times contrary to what the scriptures say. Humans corrupt religion to the point that their own corrupted version becomes the religion, and it's sad that something that was intended to bring joy and inner peace can become so tarnished. That's just my take on the whole idea of organized religion.
