God Doesn't Believe in Religion

What if God doesn't believe in ANY religion? I sort of get this from God all the time. It is sort of like, "Get a load of what these people believe. Can you believe this?" Don't get me wrong he has compassion for all his children but it is sort of like being an actor or some famous person and having people make up all sorts of stories about you and there is nothing you can do about it. Imagine God was just someone famous and people made stuff up about him and put it in the Enquirer or something like that and then people made money off him and started all sorts of religions that he thought were pretty funny in the end?

Religions down through history are mostly about nations manipulating the minds of the people like children into whatever they want them to think. For a long time most people couldn't read any language around the world and didn't travel much so it was a way to enslave the masses and to scare them into doing pretty much whatever that government wanted them to do. So, if you look at it in this way religions have to be pretty suspect because of the way they have manipulated people's minds for thousands of years now here on earth.

But, that might have no bearing at all on what God Believes or on what you believe. So, it is like I said before in other blog articles, "Unless you experience God firsthand you might not know what to believe."

So, since many lives (especially in the western world) have been unbelievably easy financially at least in much of the world from around 1950 until 2001 or 2008 depending upon what happened to you personally, many people likely didn't need God.

But now, all over the world I would say that people REALLY need God. Prescription medicines are no replacement for God and might just shorten people's lives incredibly unless they have some sort of serious long term illness like diabetes or Hypothyroidism or heart problems or whatever. I think taking anti-depressants is a bad choice. I think experiencing God when you least expect to is much better. And because of the increasing chaos on Earth I think more and more people are going to be reaching out to God just to stay sane and alive in what is now coming. Not having your own feelings in the times that are coming likely could be fatal. But, learning to be with God each in your own ways might save your lives and direct you to places of safety when times are tough.

For me, learning that I could (at age 35 in 1983) go 4 days(96hours) without water or food while praying in a bear wallow next to the South Fork of the Trinity River was one of the single most empowering experiences in my life. I had fasted on water before for 7 days with lemon juice and maple syrup to cut the toxins you will generate from a water fast. But no water or food is empowering if you are sane and physically healthy enough to do it. For me, slowing down and really feeling myself becoming a part of the wilderness was something I had to experience to actually believe. So, ever since then if there wasn't food or water sometimes I remember going 4 days without water or food and think, "I can deal with another 2, 4, 6, 8 or 10 hours until I get to somewhere that has food to buy. I never freak out anymore if I don't have enough water either. I know what I can do because I have done it even though I'm now 65. God is everywhere. There is no place that God is not. And that I find is comforting in the extreme.

an example of how uninformed people in religions can be: I'm sure all of us have examples of just how "Out of touch with any version of reality" some religious people can be but here is mine.

This was someone in my church who had been a mentor to me growing up and someone even who gave me along with her husband a "Davey Crockett" outfit and toy rifle with the coonskin cap and leather outfit with fringe when I was 6. But now I'm 21 and in college. So, when I talked to her on the phone and the things she asked me about told me that the Rumor mill had completely lost it's marbles in my church I said, "What are you talking about?"

Because in my life what I had been guilty of was in going to a secular College and getting a secular education in the Los Angeles County area. And I guess this just wasn't allowed then in my church.

I realized just how completely uninformed people in my church over 50 were then in 1969.
I realized they didn't put together that 50,000 people my age or around my age were fighting and dying in Viet Nam.
And they didn't realize this really upset us that our friends were all dying or coming back in pieces or in coffins every day.
The world had changed and many people were still living in World War II which had been over for 24 years by then.

So, "What are you talking about?" was the only useful response I could give. People had no idea what was actually taking place in the real world often if they were over 30 or 50 years of age. And especially very religious patriotic people couldn't understand the alienation of kids my age over all that had happened.

I think just looking at the over 70% approval of Government before the Viet Nam War and the 10% or less approval of Congress today says it all.

So, basically what I'm saying here is: "What if God doesn't believe in Religion at all?" What then?
That doesn't negate God because if God exists whatever we believe in the end might not matter in some ways. If God exists God exists.

So, when people say, "Is God dead?" I always think, "Did you kill God?" and I sort of laugh to myself because no one could exist without God and neither would the whole universe if God really exists.

God isn't ridiculous but religions in God's eyes might all be. Can't you just see God thinking, "Play nice in your sand box there on Earth? Isn't that a great game you are playing there? When you grow up I'll teach you more games."

What originally started me thinking in this way was "Cargo Cults". It seems like during World War II some American planes crash landed on islands that hadn't seen any technological civilizations before. So, they made straw B-17s or whatever the American bomber crews were flying. They worshiped the pilots and crew and made religions around them likely like others have made religions around UFOS that crash landed during the last 2 hundred thousand years or more. I thought to myself how silly it was to worship an American Bomber Crew and their plane and all the goodies it held. But, in some ways the same thing happened with Captain Cook when he went to Hawaii until eventually they killed him there. So, this sort of thing has been occurring when cultures separated by long distances meet each other whether it is through Air, Earth, Water or Space for hundreds of thousands of years or more already.

Another story took place in South America. A tribe believed a certain Stick or pole buried in the center of their village was important to the survival here on earth and beyond of everyone in the village. Well, one day termites ate the highly decorated stick sticking out of the ground and it fell over. All the people in the village stopped eating and drinking and  sat watching the stick until they all died one by one.

This is a true story documented by Anthropologists who witnessed this. What you believe in often decides whether you live or die. So, choose carefully.