Reply #3: I would imagine any thinking person

[TallahasseeGrannie]

would have to acknowledge they might be wrong in this area, regardless of what their "beliefs" are. Because, the thing is...we just don't know.

Now, I'm okay if there is no "God" because to me, the whole universe will suffice as a miracle (meaning we don't understand it all) and nobody can deny that. Maybe just the mechanics of the way this whole set up works is God. And I know that when I die, I am still part of the whole, so I'm okay with that. As far as God in my life now is concerned, I know that when I pray I get answers. But they seem to come from within and not without. Maybe it is just a meditative effect, or maybe there is energy in focused consciousness. Maybe there are actual reasons for prayer working that have nothing to do with God.

Now, the whole concept of a dude up there in a nightgown is kind of far-fetched and I don't really buy into that, but if I get there and he's there, well, that's cool, too. The issue of hell... Yikes. I have never worried about that. Because I just feel a sense of love from whatever it is out there (or in there) and I don't think he/she/it/they are going to throw me into a firely furnace for eternity. That is so obviously a mind-control device it doesn't warrant a second thought.