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[reassures]

A long time ago, I lived in a church with a man called Bishop. The sermons were nice, and I liked it when the people sang-- and I thought that maybe God existed if you believed in him, so while I was there I thought it would be nice to believe in God. But I don't think I really believe in something like that now. I didn't live there for very long,

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[showbizpanache]

No.

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[reassures]

You sound very certain...

--May I ask why you don't?

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[showbizpanache]

Your question would be better posed to the people who do believe. They're the ones deluding themselves with storybooks written thousands of years ago and theories postulated with no evidence whatsoever.

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[reassures]

I plan to ask them, too. ...so you don't believe in God because you think he's a storybook character?

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[hexyoutotuesday]

I do now.

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[reassures]

But you didn't? Why did you change your mind?

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[hexyoutotuesday]

I believed in gods. I had proof of their existence, but I didn't worship them. I don't worship the Christian God in the least. I actually really want to punch His face in.

But I know He exists now because I've met His sons.

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[reassures]

Bishop never talked about Gods...

I thought he only had one son?

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[soul_scatter]

[It's written in a very elegant script.]

The King of Heaven exists.

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[reassures]

[A bit of a pause before she replies. She hasn't really seen something like that on the network before...]

Why do you think that he does?

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[soul_scatter]

I know that He does. He is our King.

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[reassures]

--You mean your King?

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I think that that question is a lot more complicated than I thought it was before coming here.

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[reassures]

Is that because of all the things that happen here-- that people can do?

What made it more complicated?

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[mediumdrip]

No. [a pause, because he doesn't know enough about this stuff to really speak with any authority] It's more complicated because of the multi-verse. We have people here from so many different kinds of realities. So, it's possible that while one universe has a god or deity or even several gods or deities, others might not, isn't it? I mean, we have angels here don't we? Beings that know for sure there is a god in their world or reality, even one that is described in the Christian Bible or the gods from ancient Greece or some other religion I don't know about because it doesn't exist where I'm from.

That doesn't mean that that particular deity exists in my reality or even in this one.

So, Kurt might be right when he says there isn't a god, because there might not be one where we come from, but that doesn't mean that the angels here are just crazy people who only think they know God in person.

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[reassures]

So people are saying..

That-- does seem very complicated. I hadn't thought of it that way... I guess it could be possible for there to be a God-- or, Gods? in this world.

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It's not something I've thought about in a while, I guess. I was raised to, more or less, but in that kind of apathetic 'this is just how it's done' kind of way.

I guess what it boils down to is that I honestly don't give a crap unless (or until) said God decides to, I dunno, destroy the planet or something and someone has to kick it in the face. You could possibly call me an agnostic for it, I don't know.

But I think I tend to believe in a person's strength, compassion, and ethics more than that any deity.

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[reassures]

I'm sorry-- an agnostic? Is that just a way of saying that you don't care?

...People have always seemed much stronger to me than the God that Bishop believed in.

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[presspasskey]

Some people think so. It's supposed to mean that someone isn't convinced either way--won't say either side is wrong.

Some people are. Not everyone is. The ones who are, though, are more than worth.

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[reassures]

I don't really believe-- Though it does seem a little silly sometimes, even if I'm not sure it's wrong. Heaven just never seemed like something that could exist to me.

I couldn't agree more.