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Religion is a belief in a higher power... It's a faith.... Basically, it can fall in the category of an emotion. You have faith in god, which I don't have a problem with, but you can't prove that he exists. God is not an emotion. God is the supreme being who created the universe.... Now prove that he exists...You would think that if he was so great and powerful that it would be a rather simple task to prove his existence, right?
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See, that's the thing. I'm not sure what God is...and since the beginning of the Hebrew scriptures, this has been a constant theme of the faith. Moses is denied seing God's face...he is only allowed to peek at where God has been, Abraham hosts some angels, and doesn't know that it's even out of the normal until they suddenly promise him he will have child in his old age. God has a cage match with Jacob/Isreal, and Jacob only figures it out after the fight is over. These all are stories that exemply this simple truth...it is very rare that we can concive of God out of personal experience, and that we don't usually see it right away. I don't claim God is the supreme cause of everything in the universe...it would in no way surprise me if that turned out to be...but what i have loyalty or faith in is that God has been a real precense in my life. I have the very same faith in love, and indeed, they are two beleifs that cannot be torn apart.
I'm not trying to prove a Man in the Clouds style God....and i think there are a lot of logical problems in doing so. You say "God is not an emotion." I think you're right...i think there is more to God that a emotional fervor, but i think you're missing something if you say God cannot be real or true in any way if God does not have a physical manifestation.
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This however does not apply to "spiritual" feelings. Certainly the feelings are real. You have felt them, therefore they are real.
However, it doesn't mean that they are genuine. It does not mean that they have external causes.
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And? If the human mind has a propensity to sense moral, ethical and metaphysical things, they cannot be "true?" simply becuase you can't physically prove that it's there?