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Why are you chasing the idea of the existence of a God?

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Why are you chasing the idea of the existence of a God?
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RE: Why are you chasing the idea of the existence of a God?
August 7, 2018 at 1:42 pm
(August 7, 2018 at 9:20 am)Khemikal Wrote: So..when did Joe Smith see the angel?

It's hardly semantic.  The emergence of a religion isn't predicate on any spiritual experience.
We all experience a sense of the numinous from time to time..the fact that religion leverages this to trade for authenticity and authority doesn't mean that the one is based in the other or has any necessary relationship. Religion is a system of social organization.  It depends on .....social organization, not any personal experience in general or in particular.

Does that help clarify?


So you're saying you don't have a problem experience of religious nature but only with the institutionalization of the same?
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RE: Why are you chasing the idea of the existence of a God? - by Whateverist - August 7, 2018 at 1:42 pm

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