Point taken Steve..I wasn't bought up as anything and have never been beliefs - like I said I've said,with nothing to confirm it,they are just what I feel in my highly flawed human heart.
There are at least two alternatives to religion - science and magic.
Well, that's if you're an anthropologist, anyway.
"God is dead "
Friedrich Nietzsche
"But to say that God is Dead presupposes that at some time he was alive"
Roy Harper "God is Dead" HQ 1975
I'm just quoting Roy H!When you put the "God is Dead" quote on this thread it just reminded me of the song..x
In fact its called "The Spirit Lives".When it came out in 1875 I had more hair than Reese!
The last line is a jokey cop out but it does make for interesting reading re this thread!:
Roy Spirit
Where once were men are now but sheep,a fiction and far cry
from Planet Earths proud animal who would be you and I
Alas our forebears drank the cup of poisoned alibi
and made excuses far and wide
and made God in the sky..
This boogaloos now round the World
bad trips for everyone
no more the man of paradise
or the Celt of Albion
They queue like burning moths to spread the all-time vicious lie
_- You Christians destroyed our tribe
I fight you til I die..
And you can cut me down
for what I've said
but goodness lives where God is Dead..
The history of religion
is the history of the state
insestuous exploiters of a catologue of hate
The man of peace was over-run by armies of the Lord
who signed their names to any war
and sang to praise the sword..
The mission heads for outer space
the voices ring and swell
with aeons of self righteousness
the senseless echoes knell
the words get much more meaningless
even plainer to tell
that those who would pronounce this God
are those that made this hell..
And you can cut me down
for what I've said
but goodness lives where God is Dead..
Love is the great triumph over Christianity
She made a fool of silly priests
She mocked authority
She filled her bed with happiness
She gripped his loins for joy
And felt ecstatic agonies
And screamed the sweetest cry
Her children are the legacy of failure to be chained
An everlasting mutiny of flowers when it rained
They rise out of oppression and they speak with one accord
The Fountain Breathes
The Spirit Lives
The Future Rests Assured..
And to say that God is Dead presupposes that at sometime he was alive
OOOO what a young fool I am
Told you the last line kinda blew it!
I don't think religion is a problem at all; it's people you have to worry about. I am not religious, either, and I am not here to defend it. People can and will fight over anything. Even love! People kill over it; as they do over money, nationalism, politics and personal ambition.
If there is conflict within and between religions it is because there is conflict within and between us. I think before we can expect to see peace in the world, we need to see peace within ourselves. Until we do, we'll always find something to fight over.
Screwtape