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.