Islam: Our Partners in Peace...

[Ajani]

Because if he is a parent he actually exists. No faith needed. I see in so many peoples' description of god the pettiness of human nature and not the nature of a god that existed before man created him.

Imagine a being that is all-knowing and all-powerful. A being that created EVERYTHING... Now try and imagine what his/her/its thought process/personality must be like...

Cant? Neither can I...

I wouldn't expect God to be understood by any of us and it's why I have scant regard for any attempts to explain God and why the world is the way it is and what the purpose of life is, by any religion...

I have no problem believing in a much greater being than myself... But religion assigns way too much human emotion to a completely alien entity, that is well beyond our understanding... The Old Testament God reminds me of the opening narration for the old Hercules TV series "In a time when the ancient Gods were petty and cruel and plagued mankind with suffering"... The New Testament God is given a human face and loaded with love and compassion and somehow is constantly weeping that the world (God and God alone created) is so full of wickedness...

I regard religion as the study of God, but IMO none of the theories proposed make much sense... and the idea of blind faith maybe comforting for many, but it is not for me...