How Far can God Go
God is an all seeing, all hearing, and all knowing being that no one has really ever been in direct contact with. For skeptics that is enough to make an unbeliever, yet, with all of the resurrections, walking on water, and visions of the Virgin Mary crying something must be there. That something is the true dilemma. What exactly is God and what exactly does he want us do? Many have tried to analyze what the answers to these questions and most of them have received answers, it's just that all the answers are different. Many factors have played part in my understanding of spirituality, from the views of the past to the radicals of the present each idea has helped me realize that God is there, anyway you want him to be.I feel that religion is overrated, just as cigarette ads try to suck young teens into smoking, religion tries to suck kids in through fear. Yet, while this approach may work on some, others grow out of, just as in believing in Santa Clause. Currently, with the more open-minded view of everything in society, there are less and less overtly religious people in the world. Jean-Paul Sartre saw this concept. He saw God as a concept dwindling on the brink of existence. "Traditionall
The world is not a warm, loving place. Although you may have a good life filled with much happiness, what about the millions of others that have a life of despair? "The Koran says 'Not so much as the weight of an ant in earth or heaven escapes from the Lord.' That is touching that Allah, God, and their ilk care when one ant dismembers another, or notes when a sparrow falls but I strain to see the use of it" (Dillard, 195). Annie Dillard skepticism is threw a wrench in the gears of my thoughts. While I wish to believe that God is on a constant look out for all of his creatures, so many things have happened that can in no way be for the benefit for humanity. Catastrophes such as the Holocaust and the sinking of the Titanic show no good. "'God Speaks succinctly,' said the rabbis" (Dillard, 194) either God really knows what he is doing or he isn't there. Yet, I feel as though I have to believe in the second. y religion tells us that we must conform to God's ideas of humanity to become fully human. Instead we must see human beings as liberally incarnate. Sartre's atheism was not a consoling creed, but other existentialists saw the absence of God as a positive liberation" (Armstrong, 68). The idea of God as "just there" appealed to me. That is how I have always felt; yet was convinced that a life without full-fledged devotion would get me nowhere. All though this view was refreshing I still questioned ! I believe that God would not like himself to be peddled on late night TV or even be feared by millions of people. I believe that God wants to be seen as the father to all of us. Someone we trust and just believe in. "Life (is) an endless dialogue with God, which does not endanger our freedom or creativity, since God never tell us what he is asking of us" (Armstrong, 75). This statement is the culmi
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