What Does God Think About Religion?

[wolfman24]

1. Doesn't care

Hello

Recently on of all things a Baptist church marquis I saw a great sign it read

Faith produces blossoms
Religion produces nuts

Make sure you are among the former.

YES a BAPTIST CHURCH in GEORGIA no less.

I grew up Roman Catholic and because of the hypocrisy of the church I left when I was 14. I spent 4 years trying to find a religion that meant what it said. The only major religions I did not look into was Islam and the Eastern religions. By that time I had come to the conclusion that there was no religion that did not engage in hypocrisy.

In my second year at college I met a man who was an aethesist which comes from the word aesthetics. He taught me that all religion is man based, but that faith comes from God and that is what is important to God. It does not matter one bit whether you go to church or listen to sermons to participate in group activities. What matters is that you believe in God, follow the central message and live a good and moral life to the best of your ability. In other words have faith and it matters not whether you are Christian, Jewish, American Indian, Muslim or anyone else who believes in a supreme being or some power greater than themselves. God also doesn't care what you call it. He also taught me that God is not a HIM or her but an it. A supreme power with no form and no end. In human terms - It is spirit.

All religions since the beginning of time have been ruled in reality by humans. Humans are imperfect and subject to their emotions. Religions have also had the bad habit of imposing their will on others or denouncing others who they did not like (currently this is gays). Certain groups have assumed that because they are religious they have something over the rest of us and proclaim their superiority in a number of ways. "I KNOW I am forgiven"

God only cares what is in your mind and soul, not what is on your sleeve. The more you hold to the central message the better off you are. For Christians this is best expressed in the Sermon on the Mount.

In the 1st through 4th century ACE, the predominant religious groups were collectively called the Knostics. Their beliefs covered a wide spectrum of ideas but their central belief is as I have described above. The aethesist as we now call them were the more conservative brand of knostics. They rejected the mystical view of the others and the concept that there was a good and bad Jesus/God.

I have not swayed from this idea in 36 years. God knows who I am and will judge me on that basis not on what religion I belong to.

Thanks

Wolfman 24