Religion
In reply to the discussion: Want to end religion? [View all]Flabbergasted
(7,826 posts)Yes they are religions. In addition the word god correctly understood is not a deity but a symbol. There has been vast amounts of debate about the reality of the word and the personification of god you find in Christianity is a more recent development.
There are no scientific answers for these questions. It is like saying the universe has a beginning or an end. It goes on forever in all directions. It is infinite and eternal. What we think we know is a drop in the bucket. If the universe is infinite, knowledge and anomaly must also be infinite.
The mind is not capable of understanding things as they actually are. It can only judge dualistically. It can not perceive itself as a part of the whole it can only see itself as separate which is an illusion.