Why, believer or not, you seek a Monotheistic God.

[Greatest I am]

Why, believer or not, you seek a Monotheistic God.

Because that God is you. Instinctively speaking.

Our hiving or groupish natures and desire for friendship and fellowship lead us and statistics are showing how well our selfishness is working in terms of rapprochement for each of us to the whole world.

This tribalism is both a blessing and a curse. The hive/you, seeks to unite with the other hives, --- is everyone's basic hive mind's number one desire. This is your base driving force for survival.

We desire one God and human master above all other desires. We all crave a monotheistic world while wanting that God to be ourselves. We call that freedom. We are all in this together while all wishing to stand alone and above. Some call this our selfish gene and without it we would go extinct.

Note the wisdom of the first few self-centred commandments. Like that God, we are all quite self-centered. Not near as barbaric as the bible God in most cases though, --- and our recognition of duty sends that self-centeredness to duty and love, --- when it turns outwardly or towards others.

If I was to define God as, --- ( just the best set of rules to live life by ), --- then the statement, --- believer or not, you seek a Monotheistic God, --- becomes truth.

That God, --- described as rules and laws, --- is what believers seek.

Non-believers seek the same thing, but with an ideal that is a human leader (s), and not a supernatural being.

It seems that our natural selfishness turned duty is serving us well as a species if the trends are real. Remember to continue to seek an ideal in rules and laws.

If you have found God, you are an idol worshiper. Your bible or holy book condemns such an action.

As said in Candid, we are in the best of all possible worlds, because this is the only possible world. The world evolves and our political Gods as well as our religious Gods and masters must also all evolve.

We all seek a Monotheistic God and we all want him or her to be us. We do look outwardly though for the role model, --- and that is what makes the search worthy. It is what makes us more fully human.

The thinking shown below is the Gnostic Christian’s goal as taught by Jesus but know that any belief can be internalized.

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This method and mind set is how you become I am and brethren to Jesus.

When you can name your God, I am, and mean yourself, then you will begin to know the only God you will ever find. God is that part of you that is more fully human.

Regards
DL

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. I never thought monotheism made much sense.

Pantheistic traditions always seemed more logical. I know I can't do everything, so surely a Divine made in my image would likewise require multiple specialists.

[Greatest I am]

6. Exactly

why the ancient Jews thought of the God as many. Have ye forgotten that ye are Gods nand are children of the most hi?

We do not mind sharing power as we must but still all wish to be the top dog. It is genetics.

Regards
DL

[Act_of_Reparation]

2. Proselytizing goes over well here.

Keep it up.

[beam me up scottie]

4. Well, his last thread got recc'd

Scootch over, I brought beer.

[Act_of_Reparation]

5. I feel a shift in the weather coming.

Someone should order a pizza, too.

[Gelliebeans]

12. I'm on it

That is a terrible earworm to put in ones head. A song from spring of 85 oy!

[Greatest I am]

7. I

suggest only.

But being rather fundamental, I may sound to others as preachy. But only to morals and not which philosophy or theology you follow. Chase your God.

Regards
DL

[Viva_Daddy]

3. If there can be more than One Absolute, it ain't Absolute.

[Greatest I am]

8. Absolutely

correct.

Unless we collectively agree and elect ourselves a God as spoken of in Revelation.

Wishful thinking on the part of the author.

Regards
DL

[hrmjustin]

9. I like my own view of God.

But I respect other's faith.

[Greatest I am]

24. I do not respect

most of the mainstream churches and religions. Most do not give women and gays equality. Sure some, like Christianity give equality lip service but they do not walk their talk.

For the evils of religion to grow, read any scripture literally.

Any and all harmless beliefs are allowed by Gnostic Christians. We know that any myth can be internalized for good results and as esoteric ecumenists, we enjoy knowledge of all the myths that man has created about Gods.

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When there is a victim is when that view changes. Then you see why Christianity annihilated Gnostic Christianity. We do not let the evils of forced literalism go unopposed. To a tyrant like Constantine, we were poison. One of his first commands to his new Church was to kill off the free thinkers and of course, his new tool, his Church, did as bid. It was quite a ride for free thought for the next 1,000 years.

How can a Gnostic Christian, --- and any other free thinking moral person, --- not judge other's morals when seeing someone hurt other because of the same Church's teachings today?

Can you ignore such things if you have decent morals? Impossible. Especially with Islam pulling the same murderous, freedom stifling ****.

We must discriminate and judge constantly. Every law is a compulsion on all of us to judge.

It is my view that all right wing literalists and fundamentals hurt all of us who are moral religionists, --- as well as those who do not believe. Literalists hurt their parent religions --- and everyone else, be he a believer or not. Literalists and the right wing of religions make us all into laughing stocks. Their God of talking animals, genocidal floods and retribution has got to go. So must beliefs in fantasy, miracles and magic. These are all evil.

They also do much harm to their own fellow adherents.

African witches and Jesus

Jesus Camp 1of 3
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Death to Gays.

For evil to grow my friend, all good people need do is nothing. Fight literalism when you can. It is your duty to our fellow man.

Regards
DL

[hrmjustin]

29. Episcopalians don't give lip service.

[longship]

10. Pshaw!

Blah blah blah.

Sorry. I see no coherent argument for a monotheistic god here. What I see is a [ibegging the question] fallacy.

And hidden messages in the Bible comes off as the lunatic Bible code, or the fictional, nevertheless somewhat entertaining, Da Vinci Code. (At least the movie of the latter had Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, and Ian McKellan and was directed by Ron Howard.) Fun, but neither literarily, nor historically, accurate. Just like the Bible.

[mr blur]

11. Admit it, you got all that from Deepak Chopra, didn't you?

Nice try, though.

[edhopper]

13. I like the Greek Gods

Jealous, petty and vindictive.
The world makes more sense with them ruling.

[Iggo]

14. Um, yeah....

...except No.

[Warren Stupidity]

15. youve put our ardent religionists in a bit of a pickle.

congratulations.

[rug]

16. That's odd. I would think a god that is oneself would appeal more to you.

Have you become an ardent religionist?

[skepticscott]

18. And strangely enough, they've all gone silent

Stuck in a quandary of their own making.

Hard to keep your stories straight when your posting is all agenda-driven, with a paucity of underlying facts and evidence.

And here we thought this was the kind of "meaningful" and "adult" conversation they claim to yearn for.

[trotsky]

19. Indeed. The silence is truly deafening.

And telling.

[skepticscott]

20. I'm sure if they

dared to speak up, it would only be to accuse certain posters of "hijacking" the thread..their code for having the nerve to take a discussion in a direction that doesn't favor their agenda.

[Greatest I am]

25. I try

Hard.

Regards
DL

[AtheistCrusader]

17. You need to put fucking 'Trigger Warning' in that title next time.

My furniture can't take getting flipped over too many more times.

(I do not think of myself as anything more than a slightly higher-intellect-than-average mammal.)

(Then I see videos of dolphins playing all day, and I wonder, who's the smart one after all?)

[edhopper]

21. so long,

and thanks for the fish.

[JNelson6563]

22. Interesting post.

Well done.

Julie

[Greatest I am]

26. Thinkers

seem to like it and theists are running from it so I think I may have done not to badly.

Regards
DL

[Still Blue in PDX]

23. No, I don't. nt

[riqster]

27. Seems like projection to me. My wife is pagan, and rejects monotheism.

I'm a Presbo, and like the simplicity of monotheism. I very much doubt that every human is hard-wired one way, the other, or neither.

Just my pennies.

[SheilaT]

28. With all due respect to what anyone else believes,

I long ago concluded that monotheism did not cover all bases. There are clearly many little gods or gremlins or whatevers that control many things. For instance, the technology gods clearly do not like me, and often technology does not work correctly for me.

On the other hand, the parking gods adore me. I get good parking spaces everywhere I go. And it's me they like, not just my car, because if I am a passenger in a car we still get good spaces. This has been going on for years.

The Subaru gods are either indifferent to me or actively dislike me, I'm not sure which, but the two Subarus I've owned had strange problems and didn't last as long as they should have. The Honda gods, on the other hand, just love me and treat me extremely well, to the point where I've helped other people by Hondas.

And so it goes.