God is an idea - an idea that encourages peace and love. God is an attempt to foster harmony with your fellow man for mutual gains and fulfilled living. God is NOT a tangible entity to whom one can pray or achieve heaven. God is what you make of him, primarily because you made him. Your book is not literal and ALL life is finite. God cannot save you. Only you can save you. God is merely a philosophy and mind-set that goes by many names and excludes none: Tao, God, Yaweh, Buddha, Alla, Gitchi Manitou, the Greek Pantheon, etc. The myths written about God to express philosophy have been misappropriated by religion and misinterpreted as gospel. They are not literal but rather metaphoric, and highly so: demons, saviour, hell, heaven, prophet, sin, redemption. They are all metaphors; they are all here (not after death); and they cannot be fully realized, but only experienced in the balance of life. They certainly cannot be attained as a goal or the end of a journey by following some set of proscribed and punitive rules. So the next time some christian complains that I don't know god because I won't blindly obey their misguided interpretations, I will have to say, "On the contrary. I know god very well and many of him, but you only know one. I know god better than you!"
Knowledge is the new God.
Religion is the new zealot.
The 'christian' is the new heretic. Thank GOD!
When I give a thumbs up to Bill Maher and a thumbs down to Sarah Palin, I'm not pointing at anything in particular.
See you in hell,
Shakes.
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