RE: Why the Existence of God is Irrelevant to Me
Wow... what is super interesting about this moment is that this may actually be the first time I have ready anyone put the issue like this... which is almost exactly how I look at it, myself.
I find the question of "Is there God, or not-God?" endlessly fascinating, but the question itself (and any potential answer) is of little importance to me and how I live, and how I conduct myself in the world. You might say I am "self-directed."
The interesting thing about it (which I'm sure you have encountered...) is that such a stance makes most people incredibly uncomfortable. They want to know how I can be satisfied with "not-knowing" and how I can honestly feel the same if irrevocable proof of "God" OR "not-God" were presented to me, tomorrow.
Very cool to read this!
I don't see why people would be uncomfortable with your stance, because no one really knows even if they are religious or atheist.
I've met some people who just can't wrap their heads around anyone's life not being completely enveloped by (their) religion. Admittedly, I have just as hard a time being in a strict dogmatic state of mind.
I do think though that people find it easy to judge somebody purely on their self described religious label...fitting into a stereotypical box of sorts. Personally, I think they have a hard time or dislike of having to work to individually find who each person is at their essence.
Thank you!
Most people I get in depth with on this topic don't have a hard time understanding the 'self-directed' aspect of things...luckily. I'm sure part of this is due to who I choose to talk with on things like this though...so definitely not generalizing it out fully.
I have ran into this...usually the more dogmatic people. While I can't really argue anything with them, it's a pair of shoes I just can't jump into myself, commonly ending with the paraphrase of "If it's not in the name of (insert deity here) it doesn't count."
Unfortunately that tends to end conversations for me. Not because I'm going to say they're wrong, but instead boring. Lol