I feel so terribly alone. I feel alone in a world filled with religious types who claim to be in intimate contact and personal communication with God every day. Mankind seems to think so. There are literally millions of gods in the world today. There are tens of thousands of belief systems in the world today.
Numbers mean little.
I m a Canadian Indian - an Ojibway. For years I thought God was an ancient white man in a flowing beard, sitting on a cloud, clutching a handful of flaming thunderbolts, just waiting for Gib Oskaboose or some other dumb Indian to screw up. It s not hard to visualize ancient man living in caves, terrified of every sound, creating gods to protect himself and give meaning to his precarious existence. I can easily understand primitive man creating gods to help win his wars and justify his selfish, belligerent and nationalistic behaviors. I have a bit of difficulty understanding why so many have chosen to continue this way of thinking up to the present day.