Faith

Events going on in the world right now have made me think about my faith recently. I was raised a Unitarian-Universalist, and still consider myself a UU, so my own personal faith is not something I really talk about openly. Watching and listening to this video from Tehran does not really sum up my thoughts, but has made me think. All of these people are crying out to God. Not to save them, just to hear them. This makes so much sense. I know in my heart of hearts that if I was in that situation, I would be on the rooftop of my home, yelling "Allahu Akbar" until I could not speak anymore.

I believe in God. I'm not ashamed to admit that. I do not understand people who would be ashamed to admit that. The Jesus thing, I don't really feel...he said many good things, and lived a life that a true Christian should live, you know, healing the sick, feeding the hungry, loving the sinners. But son of God, not so sure of.

I've contemplated converting to Judaism, Islam and paganism at separate times in my life, because belief in God (or a god) makes total sense to me. I have to believe that something created all that is and all that will be. The universe just springing into existance makes absolutely no sense to me. That being said, science and faith are total compatible in my mind. God created the Big Bang, but I digress...

The way I look at it, there is too much in this world that science is completely unable to explain, and a leap of faith is needed to believe. I would not want to have the world any other way. I know that I will be around after death, which is why death does not scare me. The physical act of death I hope is not painful, but I will be there afterwards, and forever, and this comforts me.