Rank your religiousness II

[OngBonga]

I can see absolutely no difference between spirituality and the belief in a god or gods. Both require the observer to suspend the rational process in favor of faith. Either that, or it requires the observer to commit to poor logic. Both require the presence of an immaterial entity or entities to exist, and the belief that these entities can interact with and influence our material world.

I disagree with these comments here. Let me just be clear, I'm agnostic, which is another way of saying I haven't got a fucking clue, nor am I going to pretend to. If everyone was honest with themselves, then this is how everyone should feel. But, people like to think they know, don't they? Very rarely will you hear a Christian say "I might be wrong". And it's the same with the "I know there's no God" people. That is a statement of faith, not fact.

God doesn't have to be an immaterial entity, that's just the words of someone who has already decided that God doesn't exist. To some people, the Sun is God. Well, the Sun exists, I can tell you. Without it, there is no life. The Sun isn't a conscious entity, but it's certainly the reason we're here.

I do not abandon logic or rational thought when it comes to trying to understand God. That is why I reject religion so strongly. Religion is to embrace one idea and to reject everything else, which is completely contradictory to my science-based thinking.

But, at the same time, science has not yet explained to me what makes me different from a rock. Why am I alive, aware? What makes me think? What makes me conscious? Where does life come from? Why is a rock not alive?

My very existence, and indeed awareness of it, proves to me that there is much more than we understand. I can't even begin to put into words what that means to me, because I don't know. All I know is there is more. I do not believe for a second that when I die, that is the end of it all as far as I'm concerned. By body might not be able to play host to my soul any longer, but my body is just carbon and stuff, my body is no more than a rock when I die. It is the life, the soul, that is the unexplainable bit, that is what I don't understand. All I know is it's there, it exists. Life exists, and for me, that is God.