Atheism

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Deities

There are many discussions about deities.

We even have discussions about non-existence of deities. In effect, looking closer, Atheism, is simply another religion. Where the existence of a God, Allah, Jehovah, Great Spirit, or the like is at the center of religious beliefs and the tenets of religions, a non-existence of God is at the center of the tenets of Atheism. Atheism has just as much of a following as any other spiritually-themed belief system. The beliefs people have when adhering to all these beliefs systems simply are different and fit to the people who adhere – these people who are different.

Who among us has all knowledge and understanding of all that exists in the known existence we call this Universe and the World Beyond? No one, of course. Therefore, it is our beliefs which we use to motivate us with how we live our lives.

This means that every other way of thinking can be pseudo-religions in their own way: Philosophy, Government, Science, Psychology, Younameit, Wenameit, Theynameit, etc.

All of these belief systems are based on information which we decide is acceptable evidence for us to build our personal belief systems on, and based on any idea which comes our way which we decide to latch on to.

Many say that Religions have been the cause of so many, if not all, of our wars. Does the person who believes this way, then believe that humanity/homo sapiens did not have conflict before religion came into being? or there would be no conflict after religion hypothetically would disappear? Does the person who believes this way, then believe there was no violence before religion came into being? And there would be no violence after religion disappeared?

We know through eons of study that the struggle for resources to stay physically alive required killing and eating other species. This started with single-celled organisms, grew into simple multi-cellular organisms, into plants water-based life forms, dinosaurs, animals, fish, of all shapes and sizes, etc. All through this living kingdom, life forms kill and eat other life forms – conflict and violence – even if it’s just eating plants. Today, we call this process many things, including “War” – to gain something which the other has, or to prevent someone from taking what we have – resources – like water, food, land, air, space, identity, freedom, and on and on.

As you read this, you have a certain set of beliefs. These beliefs you have now, are NOT the beliefs you had at 6 years old. They are not the beliefs you had at 16, 26, 36, 46, on and on. Each year our beliefs are different even though we don’t realize it. We take in more information and label it truth, and add it to our beliefs. Sometimes we find it very easy to add information to our beliefs – especially if we leaned in that direction already.

On the other hand, we find it very difficult to let go of our beliefs. It can be very traumatizing to become aware that a belief we had, turns out to be incorrect. We had to let go of some of our 6-year-old beliefs, and some of our 16-year-old beliefs and 26, 36, 46, and on and on. But being unconscious of this process helped us to accept the changes of mind we were making. Yet, the older we get, the more we’re aware of the difficulty of letting go of beliefs, because we’re more aware of our beliefs and more aware of our desire to think of ourselves as having finally grabbed hold of truth in beliefs. Put another way, we’ve changed our minds about so many of our beliefs so many times that we want to feel like we’ve finally gotten Truth, and can stop learning.

If we think we’ve never changed our beliefs, we’ve stopped being aware of our path of learning. Pity the person who never changes their mind or never changes their beliefs.

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Blessed are those who are willing to open their mind when new learning presents itself.

Regardless of whether we understand new learning or not, it is always worth exploring the ramifications and the possibilities of how something might be worth considering, how does it fit into our current beliefs, does it make sense and could there be more yet to try to understand about it.

They asked Jesus what was the most important of the 10 Commandments. For His answer, He did not give one of the ten commandments. He gave them a new thought/belief to consider – “To Love God above all else, and to Love your neighbor as yourself.” They were challenged to let go of one belief and learn a new one. And many of them saw how it was worth considering, how it fit into their own beliefs, how it made sense, and that it could hold more learning for them yet to understand.

Pray for wisdom.
Pray to be taught the truth.
Pray for all life.

In our world, now, those who pray for these with their heart open, and their mind open, will receive. Many are being misled, and they cannot be helped, until they want to be taught the truth. Right now, many don’t want to be taught the truth, and therefore, continue to choose that which misleads. Hence, why many don’t pray to be taught the truth.

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Regardless of what anyone fears, and regardless of the challenges, difficulties, troubles, or problems which we will run into and go through, there is also good news, good help, good vibes and the like. This time had been prophesied about. We will also be going through a slow coming out of the sleep and darkness of this 12-year period. The darkest of this energy is ending during the date range from the last week in January to mid-February. We come out of the darkest (2024) energy but not all of the dark energy wholly. It is like climbing out of a hole in the ground or coming out of a cave. We see the exit of the cave long before we reach the exit.

The Jan/Feb 2025 end date is NOT related to what is happening in US politics in the way many people want to think it is. The only metaphor I have to offer at this moment for the entire many years and many events, is we’re still cleaning out our closet. But, I’m not speaking of politics here – even though many choose to believe this. I’ll add – for us to clean out our closet, we must first look into the closet and see what exists in the closet. We must bring it forth, so it can be in the Light and we can see it clearly. This has been the purpose of this 12-year time period. 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029, and the 13th year is 2030. This time period is not determined by the calendar months and years. In 2030, the sun will be up.

“Come unto ME, and I will come unto you.” The Infinite Consciousness of the One God of Infinite Love.

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Freewill, Religions and Atheism

Don’t get lost in the arguments and accusations about religions or Atheism. There are many, many people that are accusing the religion of Islam of horrors. There are many people that accuse Christianity, and there are many people accusing “any and all” religions and even the non-belief in God of being the source of the horrors we humans inflict on each other.

And don’t get confused about Atheism or the “belief in No God”. As strange as it might be to think —- we can very easily argue that Atheism is also a religion. It is a system of beliefs with its central foundation being “a relationship” or in this case – “Non-relationship with a non-God” with the only difference being that the relationship is a with a God they believe doesn’t exist. Whether Atheists believe God exists or believe God doesn’t exist isn’t the determining factor of whether Atheism is a religion. It’s the fact that there is a relationship. It’s just that in this case it’s with a deity to not-believe exists. All the tenets are still in place in the same way tenets for every “belief in a deity” based religion are in place. Atheism wouldn’t exist without the debate of whether God exists or not. Atheism centers around a God to not believe exists or to believe doesn’t exist, but it still centers around “a God” and another argument could be made for that “God” to be human beings, ourselves.

Because of all of this, we can easily argue that efforts made by atheists to change certain things related to religious references become efforts made to impose their “religion” onto others, and many times, in order to “save people from something” and in many cases, save people from other people of other religions from imposing their religion onto others.  Sound familiar?

So many *people* adhering to a certain religion say, “Don’t believe in that other religion’s God because our religion’s God is the one in which to believe.” (Notice I said – ‘people’ and not ‘religions’?) Atheism is merely saying “believe in our non-existing God.”

But, it really doesn’t matter at all, !!! whether Atheism is a religion or any of the other religions exist or not. And if you don’t read the remainder of this article, you won’t understand why it really doesn’t matter at all !!!

By itself, no religion, belief system, government system or any “system” is responsible for the horrors of mankind. Mankind and what we each – of our own freewill – choose to have in our hearts and minds, and then inflict upon others – mankind is responsible for the horrors of mankind. Religions, psychologies, philosophies, sciences, mathematics, type of government, ignorance and any and all ways of thinking in the brain, and ways of feeling in the heart, are tools which we human beings, who choose of our own freewill to have the hatred in our hearts, and violence on our minds, then put to use to further our agenda of hatred and violence. The hatred and violence doesn’t exist outside of us, it exists within us.

A person – any one of us, who has kindness in our hearts cannot have it legislated out of us. A person who is patient, gives forgiveness, shares their love, demonstrates mercy, compassion and understanding cannot have it forcefully and without permission removed from their heart by an outside force, a government or a religious organization. This is true of all of us. This person – any of us – can hold to any and all religions or belief systems and NOT bring about horrors when we choose to relate to others via this kindness, love, patience, mercy, and brotherhood.

Of our own freewill, we can choose to throw out the patience, forgiveness, love, mercy, compassion, etc from within our hearts and minds, and choose of our own free will, hatred, violence, revenge, selfishness, and self-aggrandizement instead.   No outside force or way of living can put kindness or hatred inside us or take kindness or hatred out of us.

So many times all of us, at some point or another, have done just this – of our own free will – thrown out forgiveness, tossed aside mercy or compassion. We have then justified it and rationalized these choices by using religion, philosophies, types of government, sciences, ignorance and any and all ways of thinking in the brain and feelings in the heart. The horrors of mankind don’t begin outside of us, they begin inside of us – in our own hearts and minds – of our own freewill – if we’re willing to have horrors within our hearts and minds. We then choose these horrors within us to motivate our actions towards others.

But, in the very next moment, we can change our mind.  We can then take hold of our own desire to bring kindness into the world.  We can hold onto our love for God and our love for anyone or anything, and with our freewill bring forgiveness and mercy into the world.  Of our own freewill, we can choose patience or look for understanding, or any of the other fruits of the spirit.  We can step back from our seemingly automatic bitterness and instead, be willing in our hearts to trade it for some quality which will help bring healing and peace into our relationship and our world.  In that moment that I’m talking about, we can change even our heart – if we’re willing to hold on and if we’re willing to change our hearts.

Every day, of our own freewill, we make choices that impact how we are in the world – how we relate to all other people. Each day we choose.  And regardless of what we chose yesterday, today we can change our mind and change our heart to choose better than hatred and all its horrors – if we’re willing.

Each day we choose life or death – we choose violence, hatred and revenge

or we choose kindness, love, patience, forgiveness, mercy and healing.

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“No one speaking judgement and condemnation, speaks for God.  No one speaking punishment or retribution, hatred or war, speaks for God.  The one speaking love, forgiveness, kindness, brotherhood, acceptance, patience and mercy –
this one speaks for God.” (The Rainbow Cards, ©, 1999-2015, Jodie Senkyrik)