Jack Preston King
Sep 1, 2018 · 1 min read

God is real beyond religion.

This is exactly the dividing line regarding most people’s opinion on this. People who believe God is real tend to define religion as Humanity’s constructed response to that reality (I am in this camp). People who don’t believe God is real see religion as Humanity’s efforts to construct God, to make real something that exists only in their minds. I suspect that for a lot of people, the attraction of spirituality as something distinct from religion is that they find themselves in the second group, they don’t believe God (gods, deity in general) is real, but they still long for the transcendent. To live beyond the mundane limits placed on human beings by materialist western culture. So they pursue religious ideals, methods, and experience, but “God-free” only, thanks. It’s a pickle…

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