I am nor religious nor spiritual. I don't put my faith into a supernatural being, nor do I believe in fate. I believe in people's acts, not their words. Some people say I'm extremely bitter and pessimistic, but there's only so many times you can be let down and keep up hope. You kind of lose your default all-people-are-good-and-things-will-turn-out-right disposition after a while.
I was raised catholic and went to a catholic school for 8 years, but over the years I have pushed the idea of faith away. I don't know what I believe anymore, but sometimes I wish I had stronger beliefs of...something.
I suppose the foundational question is whether there something out there, be it a God or gods, that exists and acts independent of what we know as "objective reality." My answer: even if there was such a force, by virtue of it being able to conduct itself in direct contention with the limitations of our rational minds (i.e., the so-called Aristotelian "laws of thought"), that means its qualities are equally incomprehensible. Therefore: why even bother? If what we know as "the rules" don't apply, then our attempts at qualifying and quantifying such a force are completely baseless. It's not a matter of having or not having faith, but realizing that such things are impossible to conceive, and are subsequently of marginal importance.
That said, I like what Micky Dolenz said on the subject: God isn't a noun. It's a verb.
I posit that it's impossible to care about that which one cannot conceive. People that hold beliefs in X or Y tend to hold beliefs in perceptible attributes put upon such notions. A common example is the Abrahamic belief that God is like a father, or a shepherd, or any other number of comprehensible notions. However, by their hypothetical nature alone, a God or gods (or any metaphysical entity) would exist as something entirely other than the limited terms and ideas we have in the physical, rational universe. If such an entity were to exist, faiths or acts in its name, by their nature, would be missing the point, because the "point," as it were, is beyond our realm of understanding.
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That said, I like what Micky Dolenz said on the subject: God isn't a noun. It's a verb.
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(not picking a fight--just wondering.)
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