Agnostic is spoken here.
It is not the only language. I welcome differing points
of view. But after something like a quarter century search for meaning and life
and purpose of being, I have come to the conclusion that nobody really knows
when it comes to the concept of “God” – who or what that three letter word
really represents or means.
As you may have noticed I did a visual change on the blog cover
overhead.
The dragon is not demonic, merely my Chinese Zodiac sign
in green, a life color. My image concession
to the growing global culture of the human race.
I have also included a phrase I have used for many years.
“Just because man invented God does not mean that God
does not exist.”
Hardly McShea’s Law or Logic formula on Agnosticism but
a start.
I do not think that Agnosticism is half-assed Atheism
because once an Atheist declares “there is not God”, he or she is not
proclaiming it in a vacuum but in a functioning multi-dimensional world that
needs some explaining sometime, somewhere from a scientific point of view at
least.
And to explain God in terms of centuries old myth and superstitions
is moot in the Twenty-first century of a common global era of the human race.
Also, I do not like a lot of the Atheists out there in
the public square who seem so loud and vulgar in their defense of something
that is both of a quasi-religious and secular nature.
Most Atheists I perceive to be first and foremost
anti-religion perhaps due to bad past religious life experiences. The issue of
God or Creator gets caught up many times entangled in that personal experience
thing.
Atheism per se has gotten a bad rap through the
centuries because it has always been a political term to quash any political
dissent within the ruling theocracies which I think have been a majority throughout
human history, both helping and hurting human history along the road to
evolution of the species to bigger and better things.
That an extension of the tribe or clan has been the city
state and the official party line, the official religion and or god has always
been the local glue that holds the whole mess together at any given time
locally along the human race timeline.
That God for a lack of a better word is a metaphor, real
at least to me, matching reality to a point and not unlike that of my childhood imaginary friend.
I think that when people say they believe in God, they
are really saying that they conform to the local standards and enjoy the myth
coming off of stained glass or the printed page and not necessarily in relation
to total reality.
That looking at Dawkins Atheist Forum dissolve into
chaos and dogmatic warfare says to me that Atheism is too on a certain level
just another religion full of useless dogma.
As I have stated here on more than one occasion, I am
Areligionist first, without religion and or dogma, before I am second Agnostic,
with doubt about all popular religious cultural myths. I simply do not know.
That if anything, I am a closeted Quaker, not an official
member of that party, but believe in the specialness of my own personal being
and or personal God within aka the divine spark within.
Seeing the political scape descend into madness is
seeing too much money and too much religion in politics these days.
That must change. Theologies do not work in the face of
technology. Reality and myth conflict and reality is probable in most cases as
opposed to any myth.
I remain a Cultural Christian because I believe in the
basic teachings of Jesus. I do not however believe in his so-called divinity.
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