There is no universal evidence that any god exists. We can each interpret what we directly experience in our own way, and that is free will. Trying to go beyond human experience is futile, as everything is a human experience. You may accomplish a different, rare human experience, but, well, you're not a fish, I don't think, nor a cabbage or a pudding, you're a human.
Inhibitions are cultural and learned. At one time or another, they were important survival mechanisms, and historically they have become traditions and religions. The vast majority of inhibitions are irrelevant in Western societies in our modern age, as are the religions they were born from. Even Christianity, in all its divers and sundry forms, is irrelevant and out dated. Not even Christians follow the bible, and, fortunately for the rest of the planet, following the bible to the letter is illegal in every country that I'm aware of.
Marraige in its traditional senses is largely antiquated. The historical norms have been heavily modified, from family structures to cultural constraints. This is not the world it was, and nature provides only two options - adaptation or extinction. That any god would create everything knowing beforehand how it would all turn out is very much a Zen concept - It's not the destination, it's the journey. Why would an all-knowing creator god be so insecure and insensitive as to create something intelligent, intentionally confuse it, and then sit back and watch while knowing how it would all turn out anyhow? Strikes me as a bit like lining up dominoes; no question what's going to happen before you even start. Can be a bit of a laugh, of course, a bit of fun, but what theist would want to admit to being nothing but a Holy Domino? Kind of takes the wind out of the whole 'meaning of life' thing.
Inhibitions are cultural and learned. At one time or another, they were important survival mechanisms, and historically they have become traditions and religions. The vast majority of inhibitions are irrelevant in Western societies in our modern age, as are the religions they were born from. Even Christianity, in all its divers and sundry forms, is irrelevant and out dated. Not even Christians follow the bible, and, fortunately for the rest of the planet, following the bible to the letter is illegal in every country that I'm aware of.
Marraige in its traditional senses is largely antiquated. The historical norms have been heavily modified, from family structures to cultural constraints. This is not the world it was, and nature provides only two options - adaptation or extinction. That any god would create everything knowing beforehand how it would all turn out is very much a Zen concept - It's not the destination, it's the journey. Why would an all-knowing creator god be so insecure and insensitive as to create something intelligent, intentionally confuse it, and then sit back and watch while knowing how it would all turn out anyhow? Strikes me as a bit like lining up dominoes; no question what's going to happen before you even start. Can be a bit of a laugh, of course, a bit of fun, but what theist would want to admit to being nothing but a Holy Domino? Kind of takes the wind out of the whole 'meaning of life' thing.
