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I didn’t consider myself religious of any sense until I started practicing martial arts. Well, maybe not religious, but at least I have an idea of what I consider the divine. I discussed the idea of god and the divine with a close friend of mine, who introduced me to martial arts and introduced me to new and interesting ways of thinking, Taoism, Zen and other philosophies from the Far East. We both developed the same idea of what God might be, or at least from our point of views.
If God is divine and I am allowed to personally accept what is divine to me then I believe in God. But if God is defined as something/someone static, i.e. divinity as a static character or trait (ex. Through a scripture or authority), then I’ll have trouble believing in that God.
So, basically… If God is divine then I believe.
If God is good, bad, creator, destroyer, all knowing, merciful, or anything you define or describe then I don’t believe.
I also tend to think that fact cannot deny faith. Because no matter what you believe in, either it’s a person, a spirit, a book or a science, no one can take that away from you and no one can state a fact that will ultimately deny your faith. No one can simply say, “you don’t believe” and then expect you to not believe. It would deny the basis that we actually think.
Believe whatever you want to believe, but in the end you believe something. Because you will evidently say “but I believe/think this and that…” at some time or another.
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