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superchunk on 14 July 2017
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Scoobes said:
superchunk said:

As someone who does believe in the concept of God, I can also say that I don't think belief matters. But God's existence does as existence is God.

I guess it depends on your thought about God.

I believe that God is creation itself. God is the entirety of the existence. Basically you can break it down to the most rudimentary concept by saying we are all God. Because God is all. I see it as the collective sentient consciousness of the entirety of existence.

God permeates as Mother Nature, Science, Divine, Natural and Abstract. The nature of this existence is still beyond our full comprehension and that is key to why there have been so many flavors of religion as people attempt to conceptualize existence in terms they do know. Creating false limitations and marrying that to methods to order and manage society and the world they knew.

I think someday we'll create technology that allows us to definitively communicate with existence, with God. Just as someday (a lot sooner) we'll be able to use technology to meld the thoughts of a person to machine interaction and probably vice versa.

Well this is an interesting thought on God as a concept, which doesn't strictly adhere to any set religion whilst neither being at odds with any of them. 

You say at the beginning you don't think belief matters, so do you follow the rules of your religion strictly? (you identify yourself as Muslim if I remember rightly?). Or do you choose the rules you follow based on your personal beliefs and/or it gives you some sort of spiritual peace?

I have identified myself as a Muslim, i.e. One who believes (in God and Muhammad as a Prophet). I still do. However, I now also call myself a Universalist Unitarian (UU) more accurately.

Read up on Sufi Islam.That is more along the lines of what I have written above. I do not follow the typical "rules" of Islam. I don't think they are "rules" but more guidelines. Basically, consider blinders on a horse. The rules of any religion are intended to be those blinders to keep you on a narrow "good" path. However, the Qur'an also specifically states that the only requirements are belief in God, the last day, and being a good person (this actually literally includes Christians, Jews, etc, by name in the text). Its kind of like the part the Bible where Jesus is asked which of the commandments is the most important and he states belief in God and the treatment of others. 

What it really comes down to is just being a good person to all. I think belief is actually secondary and not all that critical. This of course all ties into UU principles.