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by Michael W. Brown - 09/29/26 02:00 PM
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Jim, I agree with you about these kinds of people. There is a lot of abuse done in the name of religion and none of it has anything to do with God. There are unscrupulous people who take advantage of others and use religion to accomplish their evil deeds. Most TV evangelists make my blood boil. Ditto that for most of the people who are in charge of the main stream Churches. One can neither prove nor disprove the existence of God. There are plenty of scientific people who believe in God. Plenty who don't. Trying to use scripture to prove the existence of God is nonsensical. Defining and describing God is impossible. Yet, for those who have had spiritual experiences, those who have felt God touch their lives in significant positive ways, God is very real. Theology attempts to describe and make sense of these experiences but it will always fail because we do not have a complete understanding of God. Even when it comes to spiritual experiences, it's hard to tell which are real, which are imagined, and which are the results of some physical or mental unbalance. It's just one of those, "You had to be there" kinds of things, I guess. If you do not have a driving need to know or discover God, you would not be able to understand those who do. Those who have that need are not able to understand those who do not.
Even so, when looking at religion and evaluating it, one can't just look at the evil people and the misfits and declare it some kind of useless insanity. There has been a lot of evil done in the name of religion and there has been a lot of good as well.
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