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Originally Posted by Chicup  *snip* At an intellectual level I understand peoples need for a God and I even have theories for it on an evolutionary level, but at a gut level I just don't understand how grown adults can think they have an invisible judge in the sky, whos actions seem arbitrary, reads their minds, expects complete obedience, and expects us to not use logic and reason but instead just trust what we are told is his word by other men.
If there is a God out there, I don't think we quite 'get it' and I'm not too worried about meeting it. |
My invisible friend can beat up your invisible friend!
Seriously, after getting a couple of degrees in science, I will admit that we have no proof that there is not the influence of an external creation spark during the first 10^-33 seconds or so of the big bang and during the last 10^-15 meters or so approaching a black hole. If you want to call that God, great. It works for me. If you want to call the big bang and evolution just a theory, stand under this anvil because gravitation is just a theory too.
I was raised front-row-hard-shelled-Baptist. (Yeah, I'm namin' names.) It took me quite a while to shake it all off. The trappings came first. Then the "magical thinking" went away. Then the guilt finally left. It took years.
So when I'm laughing my ass off at a cum-filled condom that slipped off half-in half-out or watching my lovely wife have her 3rd or 4th orgasm of the evening or pounding the heck out of our good friend's backside: It is well with my soul.
Mr FC4L