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    Any Elbow Room up There?
    Where is God in our future?
    As I'm sure most of humanity would agree, God is either one of two things:

    1. God is this device that humanity has created as a crutch to explain things we do not understand and/or, to give some sort of higher purpose that we somehow need or want.

    2. Real.

    I want to make the distinction between God and religion. I am not talking in the context of religion. What difference would it make? In my personal view the two could not be further apart, but that's on a different note.
    The place of God could continue to be in the same as it has always been. Depending on your viewpoint, an idea that will eventually fade away with the advancement and enlightenment of humanity. With the advancement of the sciences we will be able to explain a little more of this vastly complex universe, and may even look back on all the ages we leaned on this idea as a somewhat necessary step to eventual maturity.
    God could also continue to be as relevant, and as real, and as there as you or me. Of coarse, all depending on you view point, that is if God relies on our viewpoint in the first place.
    For me, the idea that humanity will continue to advance to this perfect state of ultimate achievement in this self-aggrandizing age of enlightenment. I wonder if there will be room for any kind of god at all.

    I don't think it's wise to throw ideas out the window just because they're not in fashion, so to speak. Even more so if it just makes you uncomfortable (me included).

    (It just occurred to me that i might be yelling at someone that may not be there, please forgive this and i hope you enjoyed my article in spite of it.)

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    paulteagan     Tue, Jan 8, 2008  Permanent link
    I would hope that we never throw away God. I would, however, hope that, with the progressive understanding of the nature of the universe, our notion of God can be better understood. I personally can go all day explaining away in scientific terms everything that makes up my waking life, but my description would never be complete without ambiguous, seemingly nonsensical terms that do not point to any chemical reaction or potential energies, rather aimlessly addressing an infinitely large experience, an ethereal, romantic connection to something that is beyond eating, drinking, and having sex. Spirituality will survive and by that note, God will survive, in whatever form, because we all feel something that just doesn't go away when we rationalize it. Whether we want to perceive that something as a man with a big white beard, a formless energy saturating the universe, a blind spot in our knowledge, or whatever else, it will always be there. It would just be nice, though, if we carried around this perception without bastardizing it, evangelizing it, or otherwise interfering in other peoples lives because of it.
    sjef     Tue, Jan 8, 2008  Permanent link
    See Einsteins article on religion and science, I'm quite fond of his concept of 'cosmic religious feeling'.

    "The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God conceived in man's image; so that there can be no church whose central teachings are based on it."

    "How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it."




     
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