Creationist Lies
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You know I got to thank everyone in this thread -yes, even you discipler..
It made me go back and think about all these big questions and wher eI really do stand spiritually and metaphysically..and physically I suppose in all of this..
My father recently passed away and if you haven't had to deal with the death of a parent (or child..or grew up in a warzone I suppose) then you haven't really had to deal with too much existential crisis and man I am still not sure which way is up..
But I remember being brought up all religious and then rejecting it all..and then one day a few years later rereading the bible by myself front to back and found myself in awe. I thought this was one mad deep body of knowledge - far deeper and more meaningful than I was ever told about - or even what I found in the normal telling of what it's all supposed to mean...
And I also started to metaphysically read alot of the chaos theory/complexity/quantum physics stuff and got an incredible sense of the universe to that as well..something awe inspiring..
Discipler - I guess that's why I get so personally upset. I find a literal reading of the bible and genesis in particular as kind of simple minded. And I fond the work of science - as opposed ot making the universe a cold and dark place - one filled with miracles and light.
I believe in god I think, not sure if I believe in a personal one though. If you need one cool...I'm kinda happy that god doesn't but into my business and I stay out of his...
The funny thing is I think I pray everyday - I usually say "Hey god it's me..." That works for me...All the dogma and all that other crap that comes out of churches about people telling other people wha's right or what god did or said? Strikes me as incredible human hubris..you know forgetting to remove the plank from your eye and all that...
For me it's not even that science and religion are contridictory - in fact science I truly believe originated is a form of heresy in a sense. Lots of religious guys - Galileo, Newton, Copernicus looking for evedince of god's work outside of the Bible..tat's still going on...why the church(es) are so violent to that its it fucks with there monopoly on being able to tell everyone about god and the attendant power.
These are my personal beliefs...