Honestly, I get exactly where you're coming from. I think denomination is the greatest inhibitor to communicating with the divine you're attempting to communicate with or understand, which may be entirely illusory and completely based within our own minds, and possibly merely an artifact of consciousness.
If there is a God, it is not probable it is Zeus in the sky with a long white beard, judging us for masturbating or impure thoughts.
An extant God, by definition of omnipotence and omnipresence, would glance at the barbaric bronze-age rules Christianity has set up as the highest law, and chuckle.
You haven't yet, if you're still in your teenage years, but one day you will have conversations with people who are the same age as the authority figures you have right now. Maybe even your dad. And when you're old enough, the facade will drop, and you'll realize they're just as human as you are, but playing a role because they think it benefits you.
There is no way a creator of everything that is human could judge us for the way it created us to be, or punish us for asking hard questions. Even the Catholics, one of if not the most dogmatic Christian sect, realizes the importance of Devil's Advocates.
Question everything. Don't accept things on "faith," or force yourself to believe things you can't. That isn't faith. It's a lie people cling to and tell themselves for security.
Faith stands up to critical examination, refines and defines itself in the face of reasonable doubt.
Assuming the possibility of a creator deity, we're talking about an entity that exists independent of time and prior to any other consciousness.
It's not going to be concerned with whether you touch yourself at night -- the general "you," no accusation -- what you think, if you question its' existence, any more than it's concerned you're wearing the right type of underwear.
If there is a God, it is not probable it is Zeus in the sky with a long white beard, judging us for masturbating or impure thoughts.
An extant God, by definition of omnipotence and omnipresence, would glance at the barbaric bronze-age rules Christianity has set up as the highest law, and chuckle.
You haven't yet, if you're still in your teenage years, but one day you will have conversations with people who are the same age as the authority figures you have right now. Maybe even your dad. And when you're old enough, the facade will drop, and you'll realize they're just as human as you are, but playing a role because they think it benefits you.
There is no way a creator of everything that is human could judge us for the way it created us to be, or punish us for asking hard questions. Even the Catholics, one of if not the most dogmatic Christian sect, realizes the importance of Devil's Advocates.
Question everything. Don't accept things on "faith," or force yourself to believe things you can't. That isn't faith. It's a lie people cling to and tell themselves for security.
Faith stands up to critical examination, refines and defines itself in the face of reasonable doubt.
Assuming the possibility of a creator deity, we're talking about an entity that exists independent of time and prior to any other consciousness.
It's not going to be concerned with whether you touch yourself at night -- the general "you," no accusation -- what you think, if you question its' existence, any more than it's concerned you're wearing the right type of underwear.
