Some people are confused and think I'm Christian. Yes, I was Catholic for 23 years of my life and I did baptize my children to honor my parents, but I no longer subscribe to any religion.
My ethics can be considered "Christian," in the sense I agree with 99% of them, and therefore, you could say I’m culturally Christian. This should be of no surprise since my entire family is Roman Catholic, and I was raised with such ethics.
Ironically, I'm find that I'm more Christian than most Christians are in the way I live my life. All the "sinful ways” I used to live—drug use, gambling, lots of fornicating, egotism, etc.—have been eliminated. In fact, I find many Christians today to be the biggest hypocrites and cowards walking the Earth, supporting the Christ-killing Israelis, while allowing both secular and fanatic Jewish "intellectuals" undermine their institutions, to the point they won't even speak out against them. They will allow these types blaspheme God and attack natural order, but dare not even criticize a single Jew as if they were their Lord. Compare these types to the Christians who chose to get eaten by lions, rather than renounce their faith.
Anyway, my view on God is similar of that of the Stoics Taoists. It is somewhere between a kind of pantheism or panendeism. I write in my book what my view on God is:
I share this not to start a debate, because I don't care to debate religion, but to clarify my position on God to all of you, so please spare me the comments. I don't care how you do, nor will you convince me to agree with you, either.
Since this is my position on God, I have no reason to war with any religions who believe It is a personal being, because none of us can prove anything we believe, so what is the point? So long as your beliefs do not harm others, I don't care what they are. Moreover, my position on God does not exclude the possibility of revelation or prophets; in fact, since I view that God is literally everything, nothing would stop It from manifesting in such forms. However, I do not believe God has revealed itself in this manner, but rather, through the laws of Nature, through our nature, and through reality itself.
With that being said, I naturally reject the religions and revelations written by fallible men. This does not mean religions do not contain any wisdom or truths in them, as such would also be expressions of God, but not fully, as it in impossible to contain Its infinite nature in any texts—you'd need the entire Universe to express it, thus my position—which explains why so many religions clash, as they each only have parts of the truth. Therefore, I see “revelation” or “The word of God” expressed in mathematics, physics, logic, which all describe reality itself and are universal, with no clashes. In other words, God “reveals” itself as the unfolding of the objective events before us, and we use those tools to describe and understand what “He is saying” and what “His will is.”
That is why I am drawn to Stoicism and Taoism, both of which teach you to submit to “the Whole” (Stoicism) or “the Way” (Taoism)—to you religious folks, this would be “God’s Will.” If you go against it, you suffer more than necessary and are drained of life; go with it you suffer less, but then get empowered by it.
Both Stoicism and Taoism teach this and views everything as one. The only difference between you and I, is that you think God is not a force, but a personal being that is separate from Its creation. I see this no different than how the Greeks anthropomorphized natural events to explain the world around them, and I am not convinced by it.
Regardless, I have no interest in debating or warring with others and their beliefs, so long as their ethics align with the majoirty of mine, and are focused on the same enemy whose ethics are the complete opposite and is a threat to all humanity.
Mike
