What's the problem?
I have no problem with God.
I have a problem with Blind Faith and religions.
I've stated this quite a few times in multiple threads.
I have a problem with people telling me what I have to believe.
I have a problem with people telling me I am damned for my beliefs because they don't align with their beliefs.
I have a problem with people telling me the world is ending when it isn't.
I have a problem with religious reasoning.
I have a problem with people trying to use scripture passages as proof.
I have a problem with people not being able to think on their own.
I have a problem with religions that can't or won't adapt to current lifestyles.
I have a problem with religious manipulation.
Hell (yes, it needs to be capitalized, my bad) may or may not be in religious text but it is on the lips of people, right now. It is spoken in the churches, I've heard it.
Religions paint many pictures of God.
They assign human traits to God, never realizing that by doing so they corrupt the idea of God in the minds of the believers.
God isn't loving, isn't jealous, isn't judgemental, doesn't insert itself into our lives.
People are loving, jealous, judgemental and insert themselves into our lives.
You tell a non-religious person they are an animal and its like, "yeah, so?"
You tell a blind faith believer that they are an animal and they become offended and will argue that they are not.
Human beings are no more divine than any other life form on this planet.
Humans are invasive, destructive creatures that can't live in harmony with other lifeforms.
Religions do have merit in some ways.
They create social bonds and behavior limits.
What is special about the Bible is that it was brilliantly written to effectively control people's thoughts. It effectively uses ignorance of reality to generate enough doubt that the rewards and punishments have significance. To do this so well that it is still effective some 2000 years later is astounding. The only way to get personal proof is to die.
My God doesn't require anything of me, nor I God.
God just is.
I am nothing more than part of the whole, insignificant and unremarkable.
Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU), as part of that day's Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System.
In the photograph, Earth's apparent size is less than a pixel; the planet appears as a tiny dot against the vastness of space, among bands of sunlight reflected by the camera.
Everything you ever seen, heard, experienced; all that has been written, recorded, documented; all the dreams, hopes and desires have happened on that tiny speck in the vastness of the Universe.
All that is, was and ever will be happens within the Universe that is God.