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"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

fishline79 7 May 17
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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.

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)

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Religion attempts to create a human interface with reality - when humans are merely a product of that reality.

Varn Level 8 May 17, 2018

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?

@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".

@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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