Spiritual

The subject of God is a fun one for me. I wanted to bring forth the perspective that God is only as big as your imagination.

Take a lot of religions for instance. For a lot of religions they depict God as a physical entity that has powers over them. For a lot of religious people the idea of a personal, physical God is something that is tangible and easily synthesized by their consciousness. Because of this you see figures and art that depict a physical, recognizable God. It is a direct representation of their imagination.

The title says it all: Atheists are always saying that Christians are close-minded and only get their info from 1 book, which I would have to agree with, but Atheists follow this same close-mindedness, just 1 step up.

I've had this thought for a while now and each and every day I think it's more and more true. I already think that your life here on earth is some type of test or experience.

You look back at past generations and go, man they must have had it bad, how did they get through all the war and turmoil? You look back at past civilizations and watch them come and go. You see all the pain and suffering that has been a part of our earth for so long and you can barely make it out as real because we have had it good for so long here in the Western world.

More and more every day it seems we are living in Hell. I understand the concept of our reality being personal, and us having control over whether we choose to create a heaven on earth or choose to create a hell on earth and all that, and well, we are choosing very poorly. But then again, it is extremely difficult to create a heavenly reality when all the players are weak. All the smart people are evil and all the good people are stupid.

I have heard some people say that nothing is original in this world. All new things are simply a spin off of something else. I think this is a pretty fair and accurate judgment which holds some strange repercussions. Everything is pretty much the result of something that happened before it. People's artistic expressions are the result of their influences and so on.

While I do respect atheists a lot and think most of them are very smart people, I think they are somewhat in the same boat that the very people they despise (Christians) are in. For instance, they hate how (most) Christians think the Earth is 6,000 years old, evolution isn't possible and stuff like this. While these claims by the (sloppy) Christians may be weak and fairly laughable, atheists create their own set of problems by denying certain things and throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

I had an interesting thought today. Some people are skeptical to believe certain things while others are less skeptical. Some people require a certain delivery of the message to swallow it. Everybody has different believes and values.

My point is, why do you care what you believe in? The only reason somebody would care what they believe in is if they cared about their foundation and their goals. If you can't have any objective and nothing to build upon, why do your believes matter at all?

Now that I have your attention, understand that I only have your attention because you are human. Everything in this universe is not human. In fact, 99.9999999999999% of everything in this universe is not human. So these things that matter most to you matter least in the whole scheme of things. In the big picture of things does anybody besides humans even care?

I think a lot of people get turned off from the Bible because it uses all these outdated terms and just doesn't mesh with our current vocabulary a lot of the time. People forget that the Bible was written by a much more primitive man and they were explaining things based off their current level of science and understanding. Since these times I think we have progressed forward and can now understand things on a more accurate level.

I really don't get it. I've read a number of books and talked to countless people and it's always the same. Atheists claim that there is no God and then they go on and attack religions.