Why Is That
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I've been taught my whole life that God is good;
and He loves me!
If that is true, why don't I feel loved, and why is there suffering?
Which God should I pray to? There are so many to choose from.
Why is that?
Man is so desirous of obtaining unconditional love
that He has worshiped and then abandoned a myriad of Gods;
continually creating new religions
while designating all prior beliefs as heresy,
and exiling them to the realms of myth and fantasy.
What is God, if not Man's escape from reality?
It doesn't matter what name we assign to a Deity.
Mythology and history are rife with Gods; time has reduced to fiction.
What of Anu, Quetzalcoatl, Hathor, Amun-Ra, Zeus, Apollo, and Ares,
a list that goes on and on; each one a God in their time!
Their believers, as devout as any Christian today;
died and killed for those Gods and so many more.
The Judeo-Christian faiths vested in Western culture are not alone!
They only account for 31% of Earth's 7.3 billion people;
what about the other 69%? Are they all heretics doomed to Hell?
God exists in the human psyche to answer such questions as;
who am I, where did I come from, where will I go, and what do I seek?
I don't doubt there is an innate desire for a physiological God
that can answer all those unanswerable questions.
But, an all-knowing, eternal, omnipresent, spiritual Being;
well, to me, such a God does not exist,
though my opinion may well differ from yours.
Copyright © Emile Pinet | Year Posted 2018
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