(August 28, 2012 at 5:22 am)Marnie Wrote: I was strolling through a thread on another website about personal beliefs about God. I noticed many people had a falling out with their religion and, well, didn't hesitate to just design their own! Here's a small sampling:
"I found God on my own but no religion matched my beliefs. I believe god gives us our own purpose in life and reason for being here."
"I believe in many deities and angels but they all serve one god (and apparently this is the god of the bible and the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita)."
"I believe we all look for God with our hearts and it's the goal of our lives to be with him."
"God didn't create the universe and he isn't personal. I interact with him through nature."
"I don't believe in a God. I believe in a force."
This is what you are up against, humanity's desire for assurance that it is "special."
Quote:The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called "faith."
-- Robert Green Ingersoll
