God, Energy and Matter

[Aegon]

I am not sure I'd be quoting Alan Watts to support my views, but I nevertheless find myself in substantial agreement with you just the same, given your careful disavowal of the supernatural (which I see as an utterly illogical and useless concept) and your clear statement that God is neither a necessary nor sufficient explanation for anything unknown. I also very much like your understanding of monotheism as essentially an ego inflation issue. I tend to approach it more as founded on a failed epistemology (religious faith) but the popularity of embracing such an unsupportable belief-system IS fundamentally grounded in arrogance -- in other words, a failed epistemology combined with an utter lack of epistemological humility.

Sorry Mordant. I did ignore your post. I was overcome by a large numbers of replies and by human nature I answered the short ones first.

You pretty much supported why I'm the opposite of egotistical. I agree that we all come from the universe and are just another facet of the one whole existence. God is all and we are a part of the "all". Fooled by our inaccurate perception of the world in which we live we tend to think we are separate entities and that is where ego comes in. This is what separates us from God. You demonstrated how we all have an inaccurate view of the universe in which we live. We don't see things as they rally are. That includes atheists and theists. Once we realize that we're part of God and thus "one", then we can lose our sense of self-importance and move towards reunion with God. Through our natural perception of the world, we can't see this.

I'm happy to have read all your opinions and I can understand where you're coming from. But, honestly, I can't stop believing God unless he stops revealing himself to me. And the way he reveals himself to me isn't through my faulty natural view of things.

That was my post, but I gotcha.

I don't get it. Why are you adding God in it?? Where is it necessary?? I don't understand why you're making that presupposition! I don't understand!!!!