I'd never ever force my beliefs onto someone. In fact I hardly ever talk about them because I think religion is a personal matter, so I'm making a big exception for you guys here
I'm just saying that whenever I talk a walk on the beach and watch the sunset, or have a converstaion with Marc and it really feels like he's just the part of me that has always been missing, or I get a letter from my niece,....They're all small things but can make me feel so happy, and that is when I really feel there is something or someone that is larger than us, larger than life.
I know that there are also many things that counter that. I actually cry when I see pictures of starving children in Africa, or innocent people getting shot because they happen to be born in the wrong part of the world. Religion has caused so many wars and is still causing them.
Somewhere during the Age of Enlightment a philospher introduced the image of 'God, the Clockmaker'. A being that created, or helped create but slowly takes its hands of that creation to let it grow and evolve. A bit like a parent actually. You can start to raise your kids, and you can influence them, but as they get older they get a mind of their own and there isn't much more that you can do but support them and hope they learn from their mistakes.
I do not have an explanation as to why I believe, I just do....
I do not believe in all the restrictions the Church holds onto that much, I just believe in God, not in the rules some crazy institution lives by.
There, my two cents. I know you can wipe all my arguments aside with a rational reply, but maybe we don't always have to be that rational
Peace,
Sonja
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