So, why a Church?

If Energy does not require worship, then how can there be a church of Energy, since a church denotes worship?

While energy need not be worshiped, its power and influence in our lives, collectively and individually, must be acknowledged. When we acknowledge the presence and puissance of Energy, we recognize that we can shape and direct the Energy towards bettering our lives, individually and collectively.

Even without a God, prayer is a powerful force. Prayer and meditation are ways of focusing the innate energy that is in and around us. When the members of a particular church gather to pray for a sick member of that church, and that person becomes well again, the congregants praise God for answering their prayers; but it was not God, it was the collective, directed energy of the congregants that affected the target of their prayers. When a religious organization uses its power to affect the politics of the Nation, it is not God who wants to change the abortion laws, or define marriage as being between a man and woman, it is the members of that organization using their collective energy to put pressure on those who hold elective office to bend to the beliefs of the congregation.

When we, the Atheists and Agnostics, congregate together in The First Church of Energy, be it a brick and mortar building or a virtual blog, we are gathering our power to affect change in our personal, political, and philosophical lives. If one of our congregant’s family members is sick, we can all put our positive thoughts and energy towards wishing that person well, as well as comforting those who are in need of comfort.

An Introduction

Has there ever been a more annoying question than "Do you believe in God?"? God by whose definition? The Christ God? Allah? Jehovah? Zeus? Odin? The Creator (Vger)? The Intelligence behind the Design? I could go on and on, but I won't. I think you get the point.

Its not that I find the idea of a God repugnant, by any means, or that I scoff at all the different religions. I find those that have true faith to be good and decent people, up until they try to judge me because I don't believe as they do. We live in a pluralistic society, that allows Freedom of Religion, freedom of thought, and we are taught (or we should be taught) to tolerate those whose beliefs are different than our own. This is as it should be.

I have never understood the need to worship a god. This makes no sense to me whatsoever. The need to be worshiped requires a massive ego, and I can't see a God having an ego. Pray to me or you can't join my club. Believe in me or you will burn in Hell. Put no other god before me. Preposterous. Religion based upon the worship of a particular god as defined by the worshipers of that god is just ridiculous. A benevolent god could not turn away a good man from entry into heaven, or paradise, or Valhalla, or whatever simply because that man defined his belief differently than what it turned out to be. Are we all spiritual gamblers, laying our bets on this religion or that one, or none at all, hoping that we'll win in the afterlife?

I'm an agnostic who leans towards atheism. I don't believe in any of the gods that have been brought before me. I believe in that which cannot be denied: Energy.

One does not need faith to believe in Energy - it is evident all around us, at all times. The proof of energy is there when you flip a light switch or start your car. The fact that you are alive at all is proof that we are beings of energy. We start with the spark of life and end when we run out of energy. As Albert Einstein observed "Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only changed". Energy is infinite. If we are beings of energy then it follows that we are infinite. Our life energy may dissipate, but it can not be destroyed. This suggests, to me, that our souls, the indefinable quality of humanity that separates us from the animal, is everlasting and undying, but forever changing.