God

In thinking of my earlier post I’ve grown frustrated, the whole problem of a division in this country between the religious and the non-religious itself is ludicrous.

Why do Christians, or more broadly the religious, need to impose themselves upon others? I don’t care what another person believes, just don’t tell me I’m wrong because a book you read says so.

The worst of all is that all of the problems stem from semantics. God is just a word, it’s what that word means to you personally that matters.

Einstein believed in god, but not the one Christians, Jews, Muslims or any other religion would describe. He believed in mechanics of the universe, that there were binding truths that permeated the universe from beginning to end. That was Einstein’s god.

Thomas Paine believed too, but the one he describes is simply the fundamental nature of the universe, that there is good and bad but enlightenment was a choice to do the right thing, against nature itself in some cases.

Indeed if one were to ask the congregation of any given church on any given Sunday to individually describe god I’d wager that most of the answers would be different.

If there isn’t even a majority consensus to the definition of a word, how can there be such a two-sided argument about the idea of the word? It makes no sense to me.