Imagine no religion. It’s easy if you try.
Not all that easy, really. Atheism is a rather recent idea.
Somebody wrote, under the name “just some guy”:
…god, in whatever form people have created it, it just a pathetic projection exercise…
I agree that god is largely a projection of the worshipper - but when worship is working, it is a projection of the best of the worshipper, and maybe soemthing more. It seems to me that the character of every other person that one knows is mostly a projection, and that it is only through long intimacy that the reality of the other person can ever come through. I believe it is similar with God.
January 11th, 2006 at 2:00 pm
I’ve been on a sort of atheism kick for a while lately myself. Check out this discussion about atheism that I ran into the other day.
http://www.plastic.com/article.html;sid=06/01/09/08363562;mode=thread#n1
January 11th, 2006 at 7:07 pm
My own experience of trancendance, faith, worship, and the nature of existance and knowledge, is such that the question of God’s existance is not of much interest.
A fundimentalist would probably call me an atheist or a pantheist depending on the phase of the moon. God does not exist or not in the sense that the Loch Ness monster exists or doesn’t. Atheists who say that what I worship is the “sky fairy” don’t get it, and “it” cannot be explained, only experienced.