How to be Kedar

people who believe in God are more likely to live more positive lives. being skeptical, I feel robbed of that chance to be happy. and so this is my apology; my attempt to defend the idea that there is a God.

first of all, faith in God cannot be validated. It is based solely on one’s own personal hope. It is better to hope for something positive over something negative; while religion can be an anesthetic to the pain and suffering of life that we must face, religion is also the acceptance of this unwanted state, and the hope that this state will soon be over.

not being able to know the nature of God, it is unarguable whether or not there is a God. to make an argument is to contradict the fundamental reasoning that we can’t know. while it is more reasonable to admit that there is not a God based on empirical evidence and an absence of evidence, we can’t completely dismiss the idea there is some form of ‘God’. This ‘God’ may not be anthropomorphic, and this ‘God’ may not be the God of religious stories. What would this God be? This God could be the metaphorical processor that manipulates physical information. God could be all things collapsed into one simple, uninterpretable whole.

While God is not necessarily a person – God may be more characterized (morbidly perhaps) as a cold and calculating machine. While it may not be possible to appeal to this God or ask this God for help or forgiveness (God being an unmoving quality of nature), God can be a force that we can be thankful toward for good things, hopeful toward for the good things that the future will bear, forgiveness for the bad things of the past and the present, total acceptance for the fate of things. A relationship with this God is synonymous with a deep relationship with all things. It is to be this way toward all.

This God may not exist – it may be a human creation. But the idea is not to prove or disprove God. The idea is to reconnect with all things. We are not seperate – we are not individuals floating in absurd space. We are something. God reminds us that we are something. The idea of God is something that has always existed, even before ideas. It is as fundamental as the numbers.

This God is the God of the universal equation (which describes all physical relationships). This God is the God of causality – the agent of becoming that completes our state of mere being. This God is, most of all, that thing toward which we may be grateful. God is that split-personality within us that is always working to complete the whole. God is the feeling of peace and happiness that arises when all things are vibrant and life feels like life!