it would go a long way if people made an effort to articulate what they understand by "god" in neutral and intuitively accessible language, before fighting over its existence. pick any 100 observant members of any religion, ask them in the presence of another and they'll regurgitate the official canon of that religion. ask them individually and probe their conception and you'll find that, if it wasn't for the limitation of language, you'd probably agree with most of it. it's in these very personal encounters that most "religious" people re-discover their faith as they understand that "god" as the incomprehensible "all" is virtually irreconcilable with the "god" of institutionalized, canonized, self-serving and self-insertion riddled fanfiction of isurious "clergy" -- that religion is ultimately a tool that can be used for good and bad alike. religion ultimately isn't to be conflated with faith -- the very worst of the former merely commodifies the latter, captures it in brand names and slogans. imagine you were only able to communicate in terms commericals and advertisment -- what a miserable life that'd be, whew. consider "god" in the likeness to the word. just like a word spoken out loud one to many times, that eludes your cognition and ability to articulate, "god" as the incomprehensible -- as an image -- loses its resolution the more you think of it in discrete terms: the more you strongly interprete it in your favor or the misfortune of someone else. it's as if you're creeping up to an infinitely large print, until you're standing infront of disjointed pixels. (cont.)
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