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| Few are those who have not looked around themselves and wondered about the "how" and "why" of it all. How did we get here? How did the "here" get here? And why? Few are those who have not postulated a deity or deities to explain this world and their own existence therein. Some reject such ideas and become atheists. Others become theists. All develop philosophies to explain their responses to the ultimate questions of life. Various of these philosophies find sympathetic hearers, groups coalesce, and religions are formed. Gradually, having been passed on from generation to generation, the humanly-generated philosophies take on the status of "divine inspiration," and we find ourselves battling among ourselves about which "divine inspiration" is really divine. We forget that it is all a human creation. | ||
| In the name of "God's Law" or "God's Will," some do no work on certain days, some sacrifice their lives for social change, some women must cover themselves and remain in the background, some eschew certain foods and beverages, some bomb abortion clinics, some work with the poor in the slums, some murder "infidels." | ||
| I'm a theist, but my ideas about the nature of the God I postulate have changed radically over the years. And, if for no other reason than honesty about my own journey, I can accept no philosophy, mine included, as "ultimately true." Like caterpillars crawling across an oriental rug, we can see only a very limited part of the whole. | ||
| Wouldn't it be helpful if we could, or would, take responsibility for our religious beliefs? "This is how I perceive God, and this is my response." Wouldn't it be helpful if we stopped making "God" the scapegoat for our own human limitations? | ||
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