I have come to the conclusion that believing in a God is a scapegoat for acknowledging reality. That might not be true, but that's what I think.
We want to avoid responsibility and avoid science so we automatically turn to what we're told of. Billions preach that their gods hold the truth and safety, but why is only one god real? It's a fight, an excuse to hate. What have been and are so many violent conflicts about? Religious differences. We make our religion our personality and believe that anything differentiating from the hard standard is unacceptable.
This topic is one I take personally, as my introduction has revealed. For many years I blindly followed the word of others and did not listen to myself. I hurt and shut down other by repeating what I'd heard the people of the church say. It was only when I, myself, went through a time of personal enlightenment that I found out that no god will ever help me more than myself and the people I love will. Throughout all of my cries, it was not God I felt comfort in. He is empty. I was always empty when I was blindly following Christianity. It give me no extra satisfaction, no more joy, no excess love to be a follower of Jesus. Allowing myself to acknowledge that everyone has different beliefs has freed me.
It has not been a painless process. Many questions I assumed had answers come to light. Where do I go when I die? What if there is a god and I go to hell for not believing in him? Is God a him or a her? If he is a him, why? (He should be a woman. Or better, neither.) Why does he let me suffer? Why does God let innocent people die and go to hell? I don't know, and that's okay because no one really does.
My religion is science. God is not concrete. I want facts, I want proof, I want evidence. I don't want you truth in form of a book that has been manipulated by the Church over two thousand years. I don't want your personal beliefs as the only truth. Hell, I don't take mine as fact, either: but I know I have backup.
I think God is more of a philosophy. "Love thy neighbor as thyself." If the core principals of Christianity were displayed, they would represent loving others and being a fair human. Why do we have to have a God to do that? Is our only motivating factor to be a good person is not going to hell? Then again, I'm not sure. Questions can be answers, though.
We have a right as a human being to believe in whatever we would like to, whether we say it or not. Please go on being unique, but do not press your intricacies on those who do not wish to be pushed.
If one thing, Compassion should be our religion.
