GOD
God created man. But first, man created God. Although God is love, so love created the man that created God. And maybe the Universe was created by a space alien. So THAT deity has everybody beaten, chronologically. I’ve heard a philosopher posit that God is outside of time. God is a man of war? God is Jesus, prince of peace? God gave the ten commandments, enjoining his people (everyone?) to not kill. But vengeance is mine, sayeth the lord. If God isn’t confused, He sure is confusing. He doesn’t make mistakes, and is the source of all goodness, and is beneficent, merciful. Yet he created hell. He understands everyone, is omniscient, and kind and compassionate and loving and good. But he sacrificed his own son to be nailed to a cross, in agony and torture. God is singular and plural, male and female, and immanent and transcendent. God is infinite, and yet you can be separated from Him. God is eternal, yet Nietzsche said God is dead. I happen to believe everyone is their own God. Religion is an exercise in hypnosis. I like the Native American stories. I even appreciate the absurd Scientology UFO saga. God is a Father figure, imagined as a refuge and resource, a protector and an answerer to prayers. God is also a flying spaghetti monster. I kind of like the adage, Reality is all the God there ever is. God is good and great and perfect and never makes mistakes and a man of war and always and everywhere and omniscient and omnipotent and a concept, role, identity, and status. God is the source of all things good, and dog backwards, and the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God is invincible and invisible. God is insanely sane and hears and answers prayer and is One. God is the big kahuna. God is getting old and dying, and gone over dead, and grave oblivion death. God is also good orderly direction and a group of disciples and good old days and gratification of desires. Vonnegut said we become what we pretend to be. God is the Santa for adults, and the Source of All Moral Authority. God is like a video game level in the game of life. God is the Great OutDoors. God makes wind, lol.
RELIGION
A religion is just another type of gang. Like a school/sports team or nation or corporation or knitting club. It’s a philosophical affiliation, and usually what you were brought up in, part of your cultural identity. You can “ligion” and re-ligion. Ha.
SPIRITUALITY
Spirituality is all about penetration. Spirits like ghosts, mind, the immaterial world. Physics tells us that not everything is matter. Like light, or radio waves, or anything else on the electromagnetic spectrum, like X-rays or microwaves. Energy, basically. Matter is energy and energy is matter. They can change form. Anyway, you can drink spirits and spear it. Spirituality is kind of sexy. The holy spirit even includes hole. And you can spear your food with a fork and chew. That’s the third thing I think of re: ‘spirituality’.
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