oct 4, 2009
I have witnessed and felt the power of both faith and love. I am an atheist but I have faith in spiritual things. I am not a skeptic. "redirecting" the power and energy of faith to focus on ourselves and not in the sky will eliminate 95% of the worlds problems and create a heaven on earth.
I can't think of anything that can replace the power faith has in human beings, besides love which is also a faith. "Redidrecting" faith will make humanity "better" cause we would treat each other and everything around us as we treat god. From this our morals will come. Like a "natural morality"
the goal of life is survival, to continue "forever." not for one form of it to be delivered to a better place forsaking all that life in its many forms has evolved to be. the goal of the bible is to discard mother earth, all life and all sh...e and we have created for a unseen unproven "better" place. the goal of the bible is the end of life.
devoting your life to god and living under pre-determined philosophies is not living, its existing. accepting you can never go or be "higher" than that is not fully living your life or utilizing your consciousness. so when people say by bel...ieving in god they loose nothing if wrong when they die as opposed to non-believers, I say your not really living your life fully with that mindset.
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