by Mary W. Matthews

Created on: January 16, 2011

Is God an invention of man’s mind or a true being? The answer to this question is a resounding YES!

God exists. God is transcendent, immanent, eternal, omnipresent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent. God exists as the Tao exists, both “outside” and “above” humanity, AND "inside" and permeating humanity. Some people see little value in making distinctions between God and the Tao: both of them are utterly beyond human ownership, even though many sects THINK they own their religion’s ancient holy book and their ancient holy book’s modern interpretation.

Although God is everywhere, all at once, both on the opposite side of the Universe AND looking out at the world through your eyes and listening to your thoughts, most people agree with the sappy old (incorrect) song, "God is watching from a distance." People think they can get away with X wrongdoing because “no one is watching,” but God is ALWAYS watching. Every atom of your body is mostly empty space. If you could blow up a helium atom, the proton would be the size of a basketball on one end zone line, and the electron would be the size of a grain of sand on the OTHER end zone line, and there would be nothing but space in between. Nothing but space — and God. God is “inside” quarks, neutrinos, and every other subatomic particle AT THE SAME TIME as God is “inside” the Crab Nebula or the Mormons' alleged star-or-planet Kolob.

Most people, especially in the Abrahamic religions, worship an idol created in the image of man — specifically Man, that is, male human beings. Although God has no physical body and no physical location, most people insist that God is exclusively male, with not a speck of femininity. Many, many people who think they're Christians worship Jesus as "God in a man-suit," and insist that the Father, the Son, and "the Lord, the giver of life," have no interest whatsoever in ANYTHING feminine. Virtually everyone in the Abrahamic religions sees God as an old man with a long white beard, usually Caucasian (or in some cases, Semitic), and Jesus as a Caucasian blond. Or possibly Jeffrey Hunter. (In the REAL world, Jesus probably looked like a huggy-bear, the young Ed Asner!)

Let’s be clear: a feminine image of God, like the Great Mother, is ALSO an invention of the human mind. God is neither exclusively male NOR exclusively female!

Most people in the Abrahamic religions believe that a loving God will condemn to

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