God & Spirit World

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Most Judeo-Christian movements presuppose - as dogma - the existence of a God as a volitional and contriving person, as well as a Spirit World as the realm for the afterlife of a human spirit being.

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Those are a bunch of loaded assumptions. And too often, they go unexamined.

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These assumptions of God and Spirit World are pronounced as dogma by humans of considerable authority, especially by people who earned authority via their devotion or endurance of suffering.

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Many people - not all, thank you - are then likely persuaded and compelled to fall in line with one of many a kind of belief system.

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Nevertheless, authored worldviews can actually be very beneficial, especially for younger folks still developing their means of holding their own in a rather perplexing world.

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"Bingo!" say the faithful and pious, "With God we stand on firmer ground together, and - having the upper hand - we know that rewards will be ours, eventually, in the eternal afterlife." And why not? Beliefs and faith do motivate most all of us, to even the benefits of the non-believers.

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My childhood hero was polymath and Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert Schweitzer, a Lutheran doctor who founded and sustained the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné, Africa, in the mid-20th Century.

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Sometimes, however, beliefs and faith go a bit overboard, to say the least. One only has to look at the many cases of severe religious bigotry and hatred in human history.

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God or not, "what if" there is no spirit self, no afterlife in a Spirit World, and no bestowed rewards to come around? That doubt alone topples the faithful's house of cards.

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Spirit World or not, "what if" there is no God telling us contrivingly what to live for? That doubt alone topples the faithful's house of cards.

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Can we prove or disprove the existence of a God? No, we cannot, we perhaps will never be able to prove or disprove that conjecture.

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Can we prove or disprove the existence of a Spirit World? What evidence do we have - even today - other than anecdotal, subjective phenomena offered by a few, no matter how recognized they were or are or will be?

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Like most, I also have epiphanies, visions, dreams, and all. Does that make my beliefs and faith plausible? Perhaps, to me. Does that prove anything? Nope.

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In many ways, faith comes down to whether or not one wishes for certain assumptions to be true. And beliefs might very well be considered true if they possibly benefit a growing populace.

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Faith, then, is not so much a matter of truth but of utility or usability. Beliefs and attitudes of faith may simply be more helpful than not. Thus, we come to legitably have vested interests in them.

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