The Lie of the True Christian™

[Angrboda]

Love, perhaps, provides the common touchstone, and why god/God is analogized to it. I would suggest it is the feeling of love, after the passion has faded and gone. I no longer seek peace. Time enough for that later on. The religious practices I engage in, to my mind, serve both as throttle and brake, in one; that is why I have chosen them as my own.

OK -- so every once in a while on a dark quiet night when the Mrs. is off doing something else, and I am home alone. I like to light the room with candles, I put on some Miles Davis or Rachmaninoff, or something really awesome like that, take a bong hit or two, and just relax. I get that strange feeling -- that something -- that je ne seis qua.

Is that what this god-thing is like?

I cannot guide you with respect to the Christian god, as I lost my belief in him while very young. And my current belle is best not introduced for the derail it would introduce. Perhaps, it is not something to be concerned about that there is an experience you might not have had. Especially, perhaps, the experience of god. Other experiences are equally worthy, and the experience of god only receives special mention because of the greatness of the god, not the greatness of the experience itself. All altered perceptions are altered perceptions; things that, if clung to, will take your normal perceptions from you, and leave you with less. "Racing and hunting madden the mind." ~ Lao Tzu