The funny thing about religion is that no two people think exactly alike. You can get two people sitting right next to each other in a church, singing the same songs, saying the same words, formally agreeing to what the religion stands for, and yet thinking miles apart. The question is, What religion is their religion?
Everybody has a different religion. There are loads of people who have religions that are diametrically opposed to the religion that the OP expresses. But the OP is entitled to his/her religion just like everybody else.
All that one needs to do to see that the religion of
'freedom' is at least as strong as the religion that the OP is talking about, is to look and see that the OP has freedom to talk about his/her religion. The fact that there are forums where people speak their minds shows that the world of the OP hasn't conquered the world that is exactly its opposite. In fact, OP-styled talk might be inadvertently empowering the exact thing that the OP wants to be talking against.
We each have our own religion. If we incorporate part of the religion of other people into our religion, it simply modifies our own religion. It never really makes us so that we have the same religion as somebody else.
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The complexity of the universe shows that there is a powerful God. And when you combine this complexity with cause and effect and with entropy, the complexity of God, Himself, totally defies understanding. All we can see is that God is great, patient love... because of the fact that we aren't destroyed for having the wrong religion regarding God.
How do we know that God is a 'male' figure? Because He tells us so, in the only miraculous place where His details can be found... the Bible.
