Unveiled Artist
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I have seen many who ask, is God real? Does God exist? Religion right or wrong?
And those who do believe in a God or a Buddha does their best to explain. And those who do not believe try to find a way to disprove God ( and that is ofcourse fine )
But just for the sake of a discussion.
If those who are believers must give a Proof about God or the religion to be true.
Can we ask those who does not believe about roof that God does not exist?
Ofcourse i respect those who not believe but sometimes i do get curious to their Proof of non existence.
The reason why I say god (abrahamic) does not exist because the definition of that god has changed so much that today we have lost the actual meaning of deities and the mythology that shaped the deities we have today.
I know this is a rant. I just see god/deity as defined and lived product and shaping of one's culture. I don't believe in deities. God is a product of culture.It is like todays religion decide to change what type of gods people originally believed in to suit the modern and abstract nature of belief. In other words, they made what was literal and mythological to abstract and "spiritual". People actually did believe that the gods did this or that. They actually practiced that or this. Nowadays, we don't believe people part the red sea. The development of how we view god is black and white and to believe any deities existed today as they did yesterday is pretty far fetched.
Another thing is the definition of god reflect the time. A universal god would not reflect the time. There is nothing wrong with mythology and using it to further one's spiritual life. The deity view of god gets mixed up when believers try to prove it real.
Also, I have been in The Roman Catholic Church for five years of 2012 and no longer go. God is miscued from protestants as in Catholicism, behind the terminology, god is an experience: god is the actual source that brings together communion of people. God is the love between which that catholic experiences blessings from saints and Eucharist. God is that rush you get when you come from Mass. It isn't a deity.
When you listen to describes of the Pagan gods, Hindu, and things of that nature, abrahamic god is not special. I believe god does not exist because if you take away the people, what do you have left?
Also, another thing about god existence. This one is the HUGE reason I disagree with the existence of god. We are not the only planet in the universe. That being said, if god created the universe, why in the world would he just pick our planet over thousands possible ones. The human mind and ego (yes Im being blunt) and politics is astounding in regards to the christian god.
If christians understand god as a definition and reflection of history and societies concept of god throughout time, it would make more sense to me. I'd probably wouldnt identify as an atheist because god as a cultural medium to understand life, I totally believe in.
But make god a deity who can Do things and Act in this way, that throws me off.
I'm glad I was Catholic to experience god because protestant view, it's always shaping and changing. And in all views, I would not say god exists because we are not special in regards to the universe.
Politics is really something.
A note on Hinduism and probably some Paganisms. If I believed in god, I'd probably be more included in any fashion to believe in these. The pantheism (for lack of better words), pathenism, and actually accepting gods as part of one's culture and dependent on it makes more sense. It makes practice worthwhile and being an ex-catholic I understand the importance and experience of ritual within god that no deity that is not apart of god at all would never make sense to me and never would I believe.
The reason I see it false is without culture to define god, it wouldn't exist. Existence of something isn't dependent on people and culture. I've never met any abrahamic believer that defined god apart from culture and history. No matter what that person says, it always goes back to culture and history. No one can be an atheist to how history shapes the definition of god.
God as a deity does not exist because it is a product of culture and history not an isolated being unto itself. I've not met anyone who has proven deities exist apart from culture. That, I am fine with. It make
I have seen many who ask, is God real? Does God exist? Religion right or wrong?
And those who do believe in a God or a Buddha does their best to explain. And those who do not belive try to find a way to disprove God ( and that is ofcourse fine )
But just for the sake of a discussion.
If those who are believers must give a Proof about God or the religion to be true.
Can we ask those who does not believe about roof that God does not exist?
Ofcourse i respect those who not believe but sometimes i do get curious to their Proof of non existance.
God is a product of history and culture. Proof of god is there. Any other type of god, I wouldnt know what proof you're looking for.