Americans and Religion

[Archon_Wing]

I recently stumbled upon this article.

Is this a view any of the american posters here can recognize?

Oh yes. People would assume I'm into paganism or Satanism whatnot if I don't believe in God or something. Which would be kind of ironic.;)

Anyhow, it's quite hard for me to take the Bible seriously unforunately. Since my ancestors came from Asia, I don't really consider the events that happened in the area around Mesopotmaia to be the absolute and only truth. Therefore, even if I should accept some of the events in the Bible as true, then I can't accept it as the whole story. Maybe there is a God, but I do not think he just conforms to the ideals of western society. And although Asia does have some very oppressive and terrible governments, I don't believe I come from a amoral culture.

So I don't call myself an atheist; I just don't agree with people's descriptions of God.

And can you wonder? What if God is just a being that is far superior than us? The Aztecs thought the Spanish were gods. If there were a race of aliens that were a million years ahead of us evoluition, could we really tell?

But I don't bother with these questions often. Most people don't need to prove that they "love" someone; so what's the big deal here?