New Religion?

the new god is not based on fear…

innolan wrote

“To their best interest”? That almost sounds a bit self-serving, put in that way, at least to me.
Perhaps its simply the spirit of solidarity or hopeful mutual reciprocation.
Sort of like the command to love your god and your neighbor - and you will have your heavenly reward.
Is it impossible to do a truly altruistic act without thought to self?

THAT’s what Jesus did. But he had to become a martyr…but I don’t. the martyr is an effigy created by society…

You know what happens when you put a fresh new bone infront of a dog and remove the old one? the new bone gets just as mangled as the first one did. Every time a new religion is given, a new god, humans mangle the hell out it just like a dog with a bone. So the only way to keep Gods and bones safe is to not give them to the human or the dog. If it looks good on paper it will just get screwed up when you add the human factor in. Just omit the god. Make civil rules of ettiquette. Start them off in kindergarten and in a few generations you will have a sociatal meme that works far better than a God.

you may be right…the crowd does tend to make it spooky…

Changing society should be spooky. Too many folks have just jumped right in and made things far worse by not thinking past their own thoughts.

all the worlds’ religions cant possibly know the reality of a god…science only knows some about the natural god…life is so complex nobody can possibly know the nature of what is going on…the jc-god is an attempt to know but it is out of date…
evolutionary theory only patially explains what happened…if you take a close look you come up with many questions about the complexity of life…

Well, religions can’t really know anything, but religious people may have learned things about God via their practices.

what have “religious” people learned about god via their practices?

They may have discovered something in their practices, but putting that something together with a rational definition of what that something is, can prove problematic. If I experience a tangible feeling of receiving love after praying to God to ask for forgiveness for some sin, does that mean there is an all-knowing, all-powerful, all-good being in heaven? Typically the religious believe that to be the case, while the anti-religious don’t believe the experience itself is possible. But those aren’t the only two options.

is it anti-religious to believe in a new god?

Not sure what you mean. At first glance I’d say no.

anon are you wanting a new god? a natural god that is realistic…

No.

anyone here on ILP want a new god?

When there is already so much in the universe to stand in awe of? Naw!

arc for god sake that is what the new god is-----

For many, it is against organized religion to believe in a new god though I daresay that there are those in the church (any denomination) who see the beauty and the power in destroying and reconstructing the god they ‘see’…going beyond …

But it’s of the utmost importance I think for us to lose our pre-conceptions and the way in which we view a deity. With too much automatic belief and knowing, I think we sacrifice and lose the beauty and the meaning which can be found - by not letting go of our juvenile/dogmatic god and going in search of one who becomes far greater as we lose the god we’ve held in our view. Whether or not there is a god, what may come to us is one which is far greater and numinous and transcendent than any god which we’ve ever believed in. But sadly enough, we don’t want to walk out of that tunnel. Walking into the light is far too uncomfortable for us to bear.

BEAUTIFULLY SAID!!!

Turtle what about humanity as the God