RE: Why I'm not an Atheist and believe in what I believe.
June 9, 2012 at 9:50 am
(This post was last modified: June 9, 2012 at 10:04 am by Mystic.)
(June 9, 2012 at 6:55 am)Tempus Wrote: What about gods?
A god is just a being worthy of worship. We already honour some humans to a very high degree. I would not be suprised if God's plan for every creation to to ascend to godhood and beyond.
This would not make the equal to God in anyway. Because God is Ultimate Greatness.
To me however it seems logical if God is Ultimate, he is also Ultimate Life. And if he is Ultimate life, there is no life that is really "aside from him" but is rather existing DUE to him. There life is not their own, but that God gives it to them.
This would mean originally, there had to be One Creator.
Does it mean a creation can never reach the level that they deserved to be honored to the level of worship?
No. It depends on you perception of "worship". To me an honourable human can reach the level of godhood. Why? Because his goodness in him has that potential.
Do I know of any "gods" aside from God? No.
But a character like Batman if he were to exist, to me, would be a god.
(June 9, 2012 at 9:46 am)whateverist Wrote: Good question. Why then are we unable to detect such an entity?
lol but I think we are able to! Well perhaps you mean "we" as "us atheists".
I am going to go back to my "don't kill apostates" rule. Because some Muslims feel the need to follow their scholars and hadiths regarding this issue, they will "bury" that knowledge, but the knowledge is never gone and always shouting at them, whenever they think of the issue.
Now Atheists did an honest mistake in my perspective. They said "We aren't aware of an analytical proofs of God, no logical argument, so I have no reason to believe". Then they perceived all those believing in God to do so without knowledge.
Then they lived a long time and got emotionally attached to their decision.
Now just as "religion" can blind people, for example, some think it's "good" to torture humans for disbelieving in a true religion, due to religion, while deep down inside, they know to be wrong and ugly and evil, the same can be about emotional attachment to "atheism" (non belief in God).
So the knowledge of God to me, that perception is still there, even in Atheists, it's just they have to pull "God's sword" (so to speak) out of the rubble (so to speak).
Another issue is that religions like Christianity and Islam paint a very ugly image of God, and once you leave the religion, "God" is that to you, and you feel emotionally against that God.
Of course, those that mixed knowledge of God with that of indoctrination and religions, and then those chose to rely on religion's concept which was somewhat correct, and somewhat wrong, and relied on the wrong, and buried the correct knowledge, then when indoctrination left...it felt that all the knowledge of God was a delusion. The reason is because THAT god was a delusion.
The real God however, the true beauty, the true greatness, is not a delusion.
That God is not to be perceived through eyes of religion, but through the eyes of the soul unshackled from pressure of religion.