"Every faith in the world is based on fabrication. That is the definition of faith- acceptance of that which we imagine to be true; that which we cannot prove. Every religion describes God through metaphor, allegory and exaggeration, from the early Egyptians through modern Sunday school. Metaphors are a way to help our mind process the unprocessable. The problems arise when we begin to believe literally our own metaphors.".....Dan Brown
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.There are religious groups that don’t require faith, or belief. Buddhism does not speak of God, for example. New Thought churches generally require no belief. The do have a God concept, but that is not something for belief or disbelief.
WilliamFleming
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May 17, 2018
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I don't think I would like Buddhism either. I've really got the shits of people with shaved heads. I used to think they might have some kind of answer, but they are as fucked up as the rest. They are committing genocide like all of the others. (Mienmar)
Religion attempts to create a human interface with reality - when humans are merely a product of that reality.
Varn
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May 17, 2018
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I'm not sure I understand your usage of the word, "reality" in this comment. Do you mean their perception of what they imagine to be reality?
Varn:
@fishline79 I mean reality itself, fact based universal laws. Humans attempt to distort reality in order to manipulate it and themselves. Some view these attempts as ‘fact,’ other’s hang around here..
@Varn Would you say that the "Big Bang" is a universal law, (or reality)? If so, does that mean god is religion's answer to the "Big Bang"? I guess I still don't know how one can define or identify what is reality. I think each of us has his own reality. "Nothing is real, and nothing to get hung about".
Varn:
@fishline79 A god is religion’s alternative to the Big Bang. One of countless human attempts to ‘invent reality’ 
Reality is verifiable, myths aren’t.. The concrete my trucks parked on is real; that story about ‘some day meeting a god’ a religious salesman described is conjured, fabricated, and unverifiable. I believe in concrete, it’s makeup can be analyzed, quantified, and identified to the molecular level. Thoughts are ephemeral.
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