Here's the thing: All IMAGINARY things are the same. ALl are inventions of the human mind: art, civilization, laws, heritage, culture, society, religion, nation states, government, family, community, pain, pleasure, money, value, amperes, volts, watts, inches, milimeters, pints, kilograms, memberships, love, personhood, intimate relationships, AND god.

None of these things are real.

We create them. We define them. We create the rules for using them. And then, if business, government, or community likes them, we use them for what they are worth in our society.

But the church people througout our lifetimes have always wanted to say "No, no, mine is real!".

I say, "THAT is precisely the problem - NONE of those things are real... they are ALL imaginary, because WE invented them to exist in our MINDS... nowhere else... including god."

If we would simply standardize our talk about imaginary things, then it would be easy to educate people. And then people could agree on those things, then god wouldn't have to go away, people wouldn't have to be afraid of god, and god just might start turning into an improved and more useful device and the bible could easily fade away as an ancient artifact of bronze-age culture - not something people driven by fear think they must follow to the impossible and ridiculous letter today... think of the possibilities.