Faith - noun – complete confidence or allegiance to a cause, a person, or an idea.

When did you lose faith?

This is a question that has been going through my mind for a while.  A quick preamble, I can not get away from the so-called “God’s Country.”  People that wear their faith on their sleeve, and can not stand a wayward soul.  I know, I’ve heard the needing to be in the arms of the saviour.  Their hopes and prayers that I will find it in my heart and see the light.  In relation to god, I will be tackling this first.

Jehovah, Allah or any other aliases the the God of the Sons of Abraham chooses to utilize.  This will go for any other mono-theistic deity that I really don’t have time to name.  The holy triumverate that is God.  Omniscience, Omnipotence, and Omnibenevolence.  I don’t believe in any of the three, much less that all three in one.  I’m not going to drag this out, as these debates have been done over and over again, but will go deeper on them if asked.  If a God is all knowing and powerful then how can you have free will?  He will love you unconditionally, as long as you love him… isn’t that a condition?  The three factions of the Sons of Abraham that all credit and believe in the same God, but can not practice what is preached by their holy texts.  Utilizing a so-called Holy Book as the proof that their particular religion is the one true religion, as if there aren’t any other holy books around (or books written by maniacal madmen.)

But enough of the ranting.  The question becomes when did I lose faith.  When it comes to God, I highly doubt I ever had any true faith in question.  Those that know me and have known me for a long time, know the fact that I’ve never truly had any sort of true faith in regards to god.  A human is the sum on his experiences.  I’ve always been the skeptic, and faith is a touchy subject due to that.  Guided by some of the experiences I’ve had, there is no possible way for me to be able to rationalize the chaotic and cruel winds that this world has torn.

That leaves polytheistic styles.  It would at least cover the oh shit factors of life.  But while some have redeeming qualities, I still don’t see any of those gods as having better mannerisms than the childish qualities found within men.  The polytheistic gods and religions are all based around certain aspects of humanity.  Each is nothing more than a facet of the populace, nothing more, nothing less.

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Man made G(g)od/s in the masses hysterical images, not the other way around.