I am an unbeliever in a “God” who is an external, superior, and separate being who must be pleased, obeyed, or reconciled with.
I am an unbeliever in a “God” shrouded in maleness, establishing the foundation for the dominance of patriarchy.
I am an unbeliever in a religious “God” who offers love that is conditional, revocable, and dependent on belief, purity, or obedience.
I am an unbeliever in a “God” who condemns people to eternal conscious torment for not believing the correct theology.
I am an unbeliever in a “God” who baits his first two human beings into an act of disobedience, which results in a world of suffering.
I am an unbeliever in a “God” who directly impregnated a woman because she was not good enough to birth his son naturally.
I am an unbeliever in a “God” who requires devotion to one book of ancient writings as the sole source of truth.
I am an unbeliever in a “God” who orchestrates the scenario of a fallen world, requiring the blood sacrifice of his son to fix it.
I am an unbeliever in a “God” who demands faith in doctrines and beliefs that defy reason, intuition, humanity, and critical thinking.
I am an unbeliever in a “God” who divinely anoints men with special qualities and rights to have authority over women.
I am an unbeliever in a “God” whose cosmic salvation plan is Jesus on a white horse and Armageddon to end the world.
I am an unbeliever in a “God” who adds conditions and qualifications for love and acceptance.
So yes, I am an unbeliever in ‘that’ “God”. The good news is that we made that “God” up, and there are other ways of conceiving “God” that don’t require the above beliefs. In my view, even Jesus did not believe in ‘that’ “God”.
The religious version of God is only one culturally inherited model—an external, judging, separate authority—and it’s far from the only way humans have understood the sacred. Once that framework loosens, people discover that “God” can also name immanence, connection, mystery, depth, or the more‑than‑human world. Letting go of the religious God doesn’t erase meaning; it opens space for forms of spirituality and belonging that aren’t built on fear, hierarchy, or separation.
Jim Palmer
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Zenfully Quool Quote Quommentary
it’s very disturbing to live in the country in these modern times
that if you don’t believe in an outdated archaic imaginary Sky God
the same way the majority believes in some
childlike naive projection of God…
Of which they have no concept of what God is
nor do they have the volition to lift a finger to learn what God is!
Then…
Significantly more than half Christians are Trump supporters
they think it’s perfectly normal to rape children, shoot mothers in the face
and execute emergency room nurses
even if there are American citizens.
Which completely goes against what they brag about being…
Undereducated, unevolved, fascist white supremacist!!
Most reasonable people think that
sick sadistic human tragedy evil is bad
and how people that believe in this religion,
that is supposed to be about
Love thy neighbor, peace and harmony, pro-life…
How can they support that sadistic evil is absolutely absurdly wrong.
Any then an intelligent person with critical thinking will ask the question
if they’re wrong about raping children and shooting mothers in the face…
What else are they wrong about?!!?
If you look at just a few of the atrocities of the church has committed in the name of their ‘all loving’, pro-lie imaginary sky god…
having tortured to death, in the most hideously ungodly disgusting foul inhumane ways
over a hundred million innocent people !!a
All for the honor of their pro-life all loving God…
that’s biblical BS !
and anybody who can continue to this day to make excuses why
torturing to death and murdering over 100 million people
for an imaginary Sky God is a sensible thing to do…
The sensible person would observe that this is wrong!
and they would ask the question
What else are they wrong about?!!
The answer is…
EVERYTHING!
it’s certainly a dead end towards personally discovering Grace and divinity
and you’ll be forever blocked from ever knowing what God is!
They will continue misbeleaving God to be some Childish naive projection.
They just believe the myths, magic and miracles as the literal truth…
and take the word of some archaic misogynistic man that came up with this make believe story, while they lived in a cave,
thought slavery was perfectly normal,
Commanded that women had no rights,
thought the Earth was flat,
and the entire universe revolved around this Flat Earth…
It’s sad and disturbing that most Christians
will think you are an evil atheist if you don’t believe in their
childlike projection of their imaginary Sky God.
I was born raised baptized in catechism a Catholic….
Luckily at a fairly young age I was kicked out of catechism
for asking if there was an adult version to all these mythic children’s stories.
That was the best thing the church could have done for me
because I researched all the other theologies and realized that
they’re all still believing in an imaginary Sky God.
And
there are at least over 66,000 different denominations of Christianity
which on one hand they say the Bible was written by the unfailing hand of God
but then over 66,000 organizations decided that God failed miserably
and they would have to do the paperwork,
create a headquarters and redo the Bible to fix God’s mistakes.
You don’t need a middleman to pray!
you don’t need a middleman to find Divinity and Grace.
The great mystery of God can be experienced and
these wisdoms will be enlightening and
your perspective of your life all life and
what’s before and after this life will become simple, clear and
liberating from the unnecessary mental pain is suffering that is inherent in this life
and yet
this religion makes you damn sure that you are suffering
because they feel that suffering needlessly
gets you closer to their version of God!
again
another fallacy that needs to be transcended for the sake of humanity
