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God is an all seeing, all hearing, and all knowing being that no one has really ever been in direct contact with. For skeptics that is enough to make an unbeliever, yet, with all of the resurrections, walking on water, and visions of the Virgin Mary crying something must be there. That something is the true dilemma. What exactly is God and what exactly does he want us do? Many have tried to analyze what the answers to these questions and most of them have received answers, it’s just that all the answers are different. Many factors have played part in my understanding of spirituality, from the views of the past to the radicals of the present each idea has helped me realize that God is there, anyway you want him to be.I feel that religion is overrated, just as cigarette ads try to suck young teens into smoking, religion tries to suck kids in through fear. Yet, while this approach may work on some, others grow out of, just as in believing in Santa Clause. Currently, with the more open-minded view of everything in society, there are less and less overtly religious people in the world. Jean-Paul Sartre saw this concept. He saw God as a concept dwindling on the brink of existence. “
I believe that God would not like himself to be peddled on late night TV or even be feared by millions of people. While I wish to believe that God is on a constant look out for all of his creatures, so many things have happened that can in no way be for the benefit for humanity. While the truth is the truth, belief and speculation often are the more commonly accepted. The idea of God as “just there” appealed to me. What if God isn’t mean to always be the solution? What if he is in our lives for support, someone to talk to, someone that is there to believe in you, someone that you know believes in you. Yet, I feel as though I have to believe in the second. To make us the person we want are destined to become, whether we realize that is what we want or not. Yet, why do they feel so strongly about their branch of religion? When asked the question, a surprising number replied, “It’s just the way I feel”. I see the world, I realize that things in fact do suck sometimes, but there is so much more, so much beauty, so many good times, and so many people dear to you. With the billions of people in the world and the constant disasters, no matter how large or small, that occur God has his hands full. “Life (is) an endless dialogue with God, which does not endanger our freedom or creativity, since God never tell us what he is asking of us” (Armstrong, 75). She wants to understand and have no questions about faith. She wonders and in a way doesn’t want to fin!d an answer because it may go against her ideas that she holds very dear. I believe what I want to and just as if you have a preference over Coke to Pepsi, one has a religious preference.
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