Posted by
Sue on Saturday, March 29, 2008 9:00:00 AM
I was in the act of browsing a book site because I have been waiting for six years for the next installment in a series that I love with all my heart. Not having much luck with linking...why is it that so many sites don't understand that they personally must check their sites to make sure all works properly? To link is great, but so many times the site just won't and then I get frustrated and switch to another website and continue browsing.
But, to get back to my initial subject, in browsing the book site, I came across "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins and my brain refused to "link" to anything else for a moment. I sat and pondered Mr. Dawkins' conclusion regarding "God". How, my brain asked does Richard know about an entity known as god. God is not something you know about just by looking, reading, thinking and talking. God is an entity, if he exists, that is knowable only, in my humble opinion, from an individuals heart. There in that place that is dark, warm and largely secret, does God, if he exists, lives in each of us. And, now, because I am an atheist will I say a blasphemous thing: God is us. Yes. God is each of us. We, God, lives in that warm, dark and largely secret place in each of us. The "place" that is "you" uniquely. There is no one on this planet or the universe like you, or me or any other. This is the place in each of us where we must explore our psyches to determine who and what we are based on who we come from and where we come from.
The journey "into" ourselves is a trip most of us never undertake. Some of us take the journey, but become afraid and don't finish. Others get on the vehicle and continue on it throughout most of our live until we leave this life. It is probably one of the most difficult journeys imaginable. It hurts, it pains it enlightens and will, in time and understanding, give us joy and hope and that gift that is so rare: an conditional forgiveness and acceptance of ourselves plus the extraordinary gift of "God"....pure unconditional love of self. Without this love it is impossible to love outside ourselves. With this gift, we can no longer hate. We can no longer harbor. We can no longer ignore. We no longer long for the riches and power we thought would make us whole.
And this is the part that Richard Dawkins misses. God is me and you and you and you ad infinitum.