I’m not Christian, but one saying from Christianity that I like is: God is Love.

If you substitute the word “God” for “Love”, and if you use Love as a guiding principle in your life, I don’t think you can go wrong.

I like that idea.

god, or religion is a very sensitive subject for many humans today. thats why its so damn interesting.

my general beliefs could be considered “christian”

i have nothing physical that i can show you that proves that my god is real. nothing. this may seem somewhat hopeless, but having something to believe in or to look forward to when i leave this seemingly-pointless life helps me to go on everyday. it certainly feels like there is something more to life then getting a good job, getting married, or doing many of the other things that people tell you to do.

so, about the bible. it gets a lot of negative comments about its accuracy and origin. but i don’t really think that all the details are as important as a lot of people think, i mean when it comes down to it, it is just stories about other people. thats all it really is. hundreds of stories passed down from generation to generation. like a grandfather telling children stories. stories with morals. stories that help them to make a good decision today. even if a few things are different, the moral or lesson learned is still the same. so when i’m in a situation where i have no idea what to do, it can give me advice. it has an index that can point me in the direction of a story with a character facing the same problems. this story shows how they handled it, and what happened because of their choices. its nothing huge, or big, or something to despise, it helps me. and thats all that really matters.

the beliefs i have help me keep going today. they keep me apart from the other people in the world who are only concerned with making a lot of money, buying fancy cars, and having a house big enough to hold an entire town.

I changed some of it, because it didnt really say what i tried to make it say.

hope for a hopeless future. i mean, i am only going to die, right?

Don’t Christians believe that the spirit continues its existence beyond a person’s physical death?

(I’m inclined to agree w/ them on this point.)

the idea from which ideas sprang forth.

we humans are a symbiosis of DNA – which is in every living creature – and ideas, or memes.

i just discovered that John Locke, one of the British philosophers whose writings informed the founding fathers, saw the “idea” as the atomic building block for thought. i was like “cool, why did i never learn that in those stupid philosophy classes” but it felt like suppressed information when i read that.

anyhow, i believe that god is the idea from which all ideas are mere reflections. like all ideas have certain essential “framing” conditions – they are intangible, they can “abide” in tangible objects, as thought-forms they can influence behavior and alter life channels.

god is a shorthand to describe the summation and emanation of all ideas. in short, the meta-idea.

A conversation I had with a friend of mine who was raised in a both Christian and Muslim family. I added this image and posted it in one of my spaces, figured I’d repost it here.:

(regarding atheists
Ahmed: its like the cool thing about not believing in any of the major religions is you can just sort of relax and believe in your own shit
Brenly: yeah I’m like… not that I’m a turbo religious person or a turbo atheist… but it’s like what did Jesus ever do to YOU?
Brenly: did he touch you when you were young?
Ahmed: yeah not to mention
Ahmed: it reeks of self-doubt
Brenly:I mean, if Jesus or some other religious figure touched me as a kid
Brenly: I’d probably hate that deity
Ahmed: yeah really
Ahmed: also my problem is all those dudes had beards
Ahmed: theres nothing creepier than a dude with facial hair kissing you
Ahmed: like nothing gives me a more violent burst of homophobia than facial hair touching my cheek

Thats pretty funny. Facial hair can be pretty creepy… Haha.

On about our eighth beer he said to me; “If you are right (and there is no God) then when you die, you will have the satisfaction of knowing you are right. If I am right, you will go to hell.” He may have `stolen` this comment from somewhere, but it still gives me pause.

you sure have a lot of smart brain-ness. I also just noticed that some of the ‘starter’ discussions you’ve done actually have a good deal of thought to them. I promise I will try my damndest to read them sometime when the room I’m in isn’t so cold.

Relating to sararah’s ‘stories’ spiel, the same friend in the conversation to the left told me he preferred the Bible over the Koran because the Bible had more stories as opposed to dictation. The Koran reads like a sermon, whilst a Bible reads like a novel. I told him he just probably liked all the Song of Solomon lust and Revelations explosions that he reads in the Bible.