(March 16, 2014 at 6:07 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(March 16, 2014 at 5:56 pm)MysticKnight Wrote:
I agree humans create these problems and can solve them, but why must I free myself from the idea that I need to believe in a higher power to find true peace? Yes humans can do good without belief in God, not to sure why you are saying I should stop believing in God because of that.
Since all gods are imaginary create one that suits your purpose and has all of the qualities that you want your god to have. And then you will be happy. There's no reason to believe in someone else's imaginary god when you can create your own to your specifications.
Well let's take the issue of morality. We don't know for certain if our moral judgements are all what we should have. We maybe wrong and even contradicting some of our first principle and often being hypocritical in moral judgements we have without realizing it.
Humans in general differ with morality even if we agree on much of it.
God means a being that is ultimately great. While humans may differ with respect what it means to be ultimately great, they do tend to agree on much of what it means to be ultimately great.
Ultimate greatness - I may be wrong - in what it means to be that, but I think I do have a sense of what is greatness and have some sort of idea of what the ultimate being is.
Also, just because morality has been misconstructed by bad leaders often, it doesn't do away with there being a good moral sense with humans.
The same is true of spirituality and God. Just because we have misconstructed God often, it doesn't mean there is no sense of him at all or that it's a totally random idea we have when we think of God.
