Why Is That
I've been taught my whole life that God is good,
and that he loves me.
If that's true, why don't I feel loved?
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's worshiped, and then abandoned, a myriad of Gods.
And constantly creates new religions,
while designating all prior beliefs as heresy;
and exiling the old Gods 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,
which time has reduced to superstition.
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 today,
died and killed in the name of 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?
Gods exist 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 the innate desire for a physiological God
that can answer all of our unanswerable questions.
But an all-knowing, eternal, omnipresent, spiritual Being:
to me does not exist.
I understand that my beliefs may well differ from yours.
But I believe blind faith is blind for a reason.
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