Questions for THEIST Friends ...

To all the nice, intelligent folks out there, dear and valued Friends such as the Christian Left type of groups, and wonderful persons, some of whom I truly love, to all who happen to profess a belief in some higher power or deity or savior or prophet or afterlife:  please note the "YOU" and "WE" used below are not personal, but General ... as in a spirited discussion of the merits of females and males ... an individual is essentially One or the Other with well-established and discernible differences with the acknowledgment of individual variations, and no single person bears responsibilty for another's variations.  But such a discussion typically engenders strong and passionate views, so this is YOUR Warning to read no further if you feel you may be offended in a discussion of an issue as intense and personal in nature as Theism.  Your decision is respected; but the honor is Mine, even if only in the aspect of your tolerance, should the offering below receive your examination.  The thick of skin and/or great of heart may proceed.

You may know of the cartoon going around Facebook with the unwritten caption implying something like, "a woman voting Republican is like punching herself in the face."  You may also wonder why otherwise intelligent women (other than 5%ers who will vote to protect their wealth)  do indeed vote GOPer.  Perhaps you cannot understand why they would vote for the political party which consistently seeks to restrict the full personhood of women and LGBTs and deny them the experience of all the rights, privileges, and self-realization that full personhood implies?  Why do these people choose something so clearly contrary to their own best interests?

Those of us who have found no reason to devote any of our existence to deity-belief, etc. .. well, we kinda wonder the same thing about you theists ..... why would intelligent and otherwise decent human beings have a need to choose an unsubstantiated Belief over a direct experience of Reality?

We do not understand why you have not transcended Theism like other pleasant imaginings such as the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, and the Tooth Fairy which at least do not have an undeniable history of violence, physical and intellectual, against those who do not believe in them.  And why do you choose to adhere to a belief tradition which has always been on the wrong side of the progress of science?  Why do you make excuses, perform apologetic contortions for a cosmic metaphor which is so obviously flawed, its divinely inspired books so ambiguous with vastly varying interpretations, and has so blatantly failed to manifest its professed ideals?  How do you find value in a belief whose adherents since the Hebrews slaughtered the inhabitants of Canaan has allowed, encouraged, and often commanded its adherents to do unspeakable violence to non-adherents?   How do you dismiss centuries of facts in order to feel good about a deity/savior/prophet in whose names so many atrocities have been committed?  Have some of You also postulated a convenient Evil One to explain the failures of your deity?  Or Is it your fear of death is so profoundly disturbing you must take comfort in an imaginary deity which promises an afterlife?

We just do not get it ..... but do not worry, We will not go all Theist religious-history on You, round you up, burn some of you at the stake, seize your lands, or blow up your country, because, you see, We really do have a form of "faith" ... a reasoned faith based upon Our experiences that intelligent people have come across information or liberating epiphanies which enabled them to take the training wheels off their cosmic-viewing bicycles.  We do not understand why you are afraid to ride your life's bicycle all by yourself without some imaginary hand steadying your balance.

Now before some of you may go tut-tut, feeling that my phrasing is too snarky or condescending, I ask how could You say that of My viewpoint? ....... BECAUSE .... 

It is the Theists who assert the existence of some deity which WE, otherwise intelligent and decent human beings, CANNOT perceive.  How much more condescending can one be than to assert an ULTIMATE COSMIC REALITY which We are unable to experience due to what necessarily must be some ignorance, insensitivity, lack of faith, or other deficiency which renders US incapable of seeing what YOU can see?    And the beliefs of many, many monotheists  consign US to a horrible eternal suffering for our inability to see what You see.

So ? YOU are able to see this idealized Cosmic Reality which WE cannot?  Oh, REALLY ???

Cannot YOU see how to US, that is actually what is truly a condescending position which has no evidence or facts to back it up..

But PLEASE Understand ....WE do not seek to only take some pleasant, comforting belief away from You .... We are just asking you to remove the veil you have chosen to wear which obscures your view of a greater reality.  We wish for YOU to realize that You, unlike a caterpillar, have complete control of When you can change into something which can escape the limitations of crawling on branches to Flying around in a world more wonderful and filled with nectars you never imagined when you were clinging to a branch.   Your Wings are ready, whenever you realize you have them.  FLY !!!  Fly, let go of the branch, Fly in the warmth of unveiled Light and taste the nectars of a grander universe.

As the description of this little blog says "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, does NOT go away ... gods go away, gravity does not."   Don't be afraid to try knowing instead of believing .... clean your windows of perception, and I assure you, the universe You will see is a more marvelous and precious experience without the limitations of imaginary friends  .... go ahead ... You Can do it ... pedal your cosmic-viewing bicycle all by yourself ... it is a much, much better ride .... you can do it ... there is no need to be afraid ... perhaps you might take comfort in the awareness that "In their Ultimate Essence, all things are ONE, and that Oneness is the Supreme Reality."

Oh, and when your body, an amazing though Most Temporary coalescence of stardust, ceases to function, the "you," the-once-in-the-history-of-the-universe self-aware-energy generated by that stardust, simply returns to what it was before "you" were born ...."you" are again part of the undifferentiated and therefore pure essence of the Cosmos,... "you" are no longer separated by your body and petty ego-centered consciousness from the Ground Being of Reality ... "you" again resonate with the cosmic chord of the music of the celestial spheres..... "you" are once again ONE with all that ever was or will be ... "   That is not so scary, is it?  And WE would ask YOU  "what more could you want?"

Realizing language is inherently incapable of expressing the Transcendent as experienced by humans, I would attempt to describe what We offer You in place of a limiting theism as a "Spiritual" Realism ..... a perspective which may allow one to experience an awe of blissful self-awareness of being an integerated part of the Cosmos .... being what you really are in what really exists.

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