finding god

[Helm]

Nothing is better than something if the something is stupid.

As to god without church: I have a hard time taking the concept of an all-powerful, omnipresent, eternal God. I could accept the possibility of some vastly different sort of life-form as the creator of some of the things the creation of which we attribute to god, but then that wouldn't be a 'god' by most definitions. So um... my main beef isn't with the church (or rather, I have a completely different sort of beef with the church) but with the moronity of the concept of the Judeo-Christian model of 'god' to begin with.


As to your experience and resulting shift in belief, just keep in mind that people usually underestimate their ability to completely bulshit themselves blind. Some things just seem too attractive to pass up, apparently. Just be very critical of your beliefs, and especially on why you have them. You wouldn't believe how many people force themselves to believe this and that just so they have something interesting to say at parties. I know I've done it, and when I did it I don't think I classified for a complete moron, so apparently this is not an attribute of only those of little intellectual capacity. In fact, I'd wagger that the more complex ideas you fathom, the more you're in danger of 'buying into your own bulshit' so to speak. You wouln't believe what stuff people say and keep a straight face about it.