I'm currently drafting my creed as a personal exercise in response to some reading and contemplation that I've done over the summer (and am itching to take the more formal route of completing the UU Building Your Own Theology course). And I'm finding that the word "God" isn't appearing in it. Nor is it likely to. And that doesn't bother me in the least. It's not that I'm becoming an atheist. As I read through the statements I'm making in it (I'll post it in a blog someday), there's more than a few that suggest a kind of pantheism or even panentheism.
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Come and join and please don't be shy. We are all participating to learn something.
I thought I'd test the waters of this site and see how many atheists actually frequant these hallowed halls. If you are an atheist, please post. Explain why you are a non-believer, explain how, explain when, do anything you want. The point is to show all these unbearably superstitious people that we do indeed have a presence on this site.
Okay, we play a game like Farm Town or Farm Ville. we start out small and plant crops. This leads to harvesting and making money. This leads to buying facilities and producing cakes, pies, pizza etc. Then we sell and buy more land.
Was God's plan like this? Do you think God had an idea that evolved into where we are today or did God see the big picture until and through eternity?
Is God still adding to God's original plan? What do you think?
For those who think there is no God, who are the CEO's who are orchestrating this whole thing?
I have a question for you, and it is quite simple in nature. I assume a large portion of those who visit this site (that's you!) are members of either Christianity or some other monotheisitc Abrahamic religion. If you are, I address this question to you. Why do you believe in the monotheistic Abrahamic god (Yahweh) and not the Greek pantheon of gods(Zeus, Apollo, Aphrodite, Hades, etc...)? I am not trying to offend in any way, shape or form. I am simply curious as to what reasoning the majority of you have.
This topic/phrase came up during a profound theological discussion I was having with Chasen...and I was reading some science guy who said there is one fundiment of the Universe: the evident desire for the increase of complexity...
From a An infinitly small packet of energy...
strings, to hydrogen , more atoms, things, life, consciousness, evolution in general
I have been Asked to do many impossible things for God over the last nine years. Now that He has reduced me to zero, I can't say that I'm 'Asked' to do one more thing. It's like I haven't been Given an option.
My dad just had a second heart attack in as many months. All the doctors could say is that his heart is 'tired.' At 87 years old, the body is just worn out. He is a minister. Now his son begins to enter the process to become one. The doctors asked my mother about 'do not resuscitate' orders.'
