More protests Against The Theocratic Regime in Iran

[Leonardo17]

@Leonardo17

 
 I only meant that “God” is a universal phenomenon and everyone has equal access to it.

God is neither universal nor a phenomenon. It God was universal, atheism wouldn’t exist and everyone would have identical views about It. If God was a phenomenon, we could measure It.

Boru

I have no issue with atheism. Atheism usually asks all the good questions about religion and spirituality. It adds humility to people like me because I myself am still in this quest to understand the very spiritual principles I am talking about.
 
But in summary: “I believe in something that is both the Universe and the creative power beyond the universe that is present within all living and unloving things to which everybody can have access if they chose to”. And I said this to mean that I don’t need any intermediary for it. And I said it to emphasize that this is an individual path. The Course in Miracles says that we are all in an “individualized curriculum” in our lives. So I can’t have an issue with atheism if it is (most probably) your individualized curriculum in this life-time.
 
And the more socialized / politicized forms of religion simply don’t apply to our age anymore. Even the most typical Muslim or Christian would tell you that (whatever it is) your religious practice is there to benefit or harm you and you only. So to me there can’t be a “politics of religion”. The way I see it, it’s within you and within you only. It’s an inside phenomenon. That’s what I said.
 
And believing it doesn’t exist, is not that far from reality either.
 
I don’t know if I sound like a mad-man. But I’m not really trying to sound like a mad man. That’s the closest I can get to explaining it.