Existheology
Spiritual philosophy and reflections on God, nature, reason, and the examined life.
Abraham and Spinoza represent two revolutionary approaches to the knowledge of one God. This essay compares the two figures to show the ways in which one can understand a monotheist's God — and why the ego that one religion holds over another is a source of hatred.
Our proof for the existence of God is not one of design. It is plainly in existence itself. The one undeniable truth is that something exists — and from there, five steps that everyone already knows.
Religion is one of the ways our kind has tried to reach the One. A path is judged by where it takes people: by the blessedness and the conduct it produces in them. The real miracle is not a suspension of natural law — it is that there is order at all.
Explaining the events of the universe, as they relate to God, has had two commonly known answers: theism, with an all-knowing God who plans and intervenes, and atheism, with no God at all. Today I write to remove purpose, will, and intellect of the human kind from God — and to show God in a way much more powerful and present.
Most humans go from the womb to the tomb without understanding reality, with beliefs rooted in imagination and a confusion of realities. Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
This article endeavors to understand the root causes of action, the basis of conflicts, and a pathway to inner peace that should lead us to social unity. The work starts with us, the people, by increasing the inner peace of ourselves and of our neighbors.
