GOD, RELIGION & ATHEISM

GOD, RELIGION & ATHEISM

God

To many in traditional religions, the God concept is that of a separate entity of special and superior power.

Atheism exists through a refutation of God and religion. If a person claims to be agnostic or atheistic, then they are basically declaring themselves not to believe in a particular concept of God.

However, if God, in its traditional sense, is an all powerful and all knowing being, in a word, ‘omnipotent’, how could this be achieved? How could anything manage to know everything and have complete and ultimate power? Surely, the only sensible way this could be achieved would be if God was everything. To reiterate, it would not be enough to be in everything, God would actually have to be everything. From this, does God exist? Yes. God is a factual existence and does not need faith. God is all around in everything you can see and touch. It may be blasphemous to say this, but we are all part of God’s material existence.

God therefore is a simple three letter word to describe entirety. If God is existence itself, it does not depend on faith because it is factual. The only form of atheism that can come from that would be to refute the declaration that God and the universe are one and the same.

Fraternalism

God is not made up just of dead matter. The life force that exists in all living things – animal, vegetable, bacteriological or any other type is in actual fact the ‘the spirit of God’. Fraternalism starts with recognizing that all and everything is related to everything else. We co-exist as part of the same being and share in the life force of the universe. Being a Fraternalist is simply acknowledging that God is everything and the spirit of God is life itself. From this acceptance follows the understanding that everything is related at the material and non-material level. If we are of the same spirit as all other life forms then we are fraternally related to all other living entities.

God is not mythical. Every living part of you is possessed by this spirit of God - every cell and every micro-organism.

Whilst there may be a case for decrying traditional religion, under the Fraternalist philosophy, God cannot be refuted since God is everything physical or non physical.
To deny God’s existence under the Fraternalist description is to deny that the world exists and thus a denial of one’s own existence.

In Fraternalism, God’s power works in and through nature. It moves as an element of nature and within the laws of physics. God is not separate to us, but we are part of God. Individuals are part of God and God is only superior through being made up of the collectivity of everything.

God does not have a gender or a race. God is all of everything. Appreciating and accepting this concept means that everything about us, animate or inanimate is intimately related to us. It means that just as we may have a particular respect for a blood relative, so we should have for all things.

Within this brotherhood of man, can be deduced a number of moral guidelines which follow below. As an imperfect human being using imperfect language, I may not express these in the way that I intend. However, I would invite others who have an affiliation with what I am trying to convey to form groups that would be willing to meet with me. I believe it is important that someone does something whilst there is still time to do so.