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Does god have self-esteem?
I don’t think he has. Self-esteem would make him too human like which would mean he/she/it would only exist for or could only be understood by human beings.
Thus, he would simply not be there / not make sense for other creatures or things he created himself.

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“You shall have no other gods before me!“

Actually this sounds like an advertising slogan. “Don’t buy their product, buy ours.” It sounds like someone who is afraid of losing a competition. Other than that, I don’t believe ‘God’ was the first one who said that. So why believe ‘this’ god and not any other god before him?

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“After investigation, believe that which you have yourselves
tested and found reasonable, and which is for your good,
and that of others.” - Buddha

Feel free to write a comment with your opinion on the quote above. You can also start a conversation by asking questions or just stating your thoughts.

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Why does God test our faith?
Why does he bring other gods into play?
What do we need ‘Ra’, ‘Buddha’ and ‘Shiva’ for when there is only one god according to Christians, Jews, etc.
Why would he invent competitors he later/now has to fight? Competitors that make it harder to get ‘the message’ across.

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If god is not manlike at all, how can we understand him then?
When he gave us the 10 commandments, he must have turned into something manlike. He must have written something we can understand. And since some people obviously did receive his message, I’m asking myself the following question:

Does it make sense to trust somebody / to believe in somebody who is (even if only for a short period of time in order to write the 10 commandments) on the same level we are?
An erring manlike level?

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Why are there so many ‘disagreements’ in our world that are based on religious issues? How contradictory is that?

‘Taking part‘ in a religion means to compete. Why do you believe in Allah and not in Jesus? Why are you Jewish and not Christian?

Why are there so many religions? Seems like the terms ‘being reasonable’, ‘loving your neighbor’, ‘not killing each other’ and ‘doing good’ are not that obvious at all. Are these terms really a matter of opinion? Do you really have to invent a completely new religion instead of amending rules to an existing list? Wouldn’t that be easier?

It’s like in working life. There, people want to be the best to get more money. But why do you need ‘THE religion‘? What’s your benefit? Unless you’re a priest or something similar you won’t get paid. Believing is just uncompensated labor. So it can’t be about money then. But what’s the purpose of this competition then? The purpose of every people creating their own, better, more unique religion? Doesn’t this just make the whole thing even more implausible?

Why not just believe in ‘GOOD’ rather than ‘GOD’?

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“Bad” people who confess their faith on their deathbed go to heaven.
“Good” people whose only “fault” was to not believe in god don’t.

Is it not about “good deeds” and “love your neighbor” then?
Is it just about increasing god’s self esteem?

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Do you think the absence of religion would make the world a better place?
How do you benefit from religion?
If atheism/agnosticism is considered “blasphemy” on the one hand,
can religion be considered “selfish/ego-centric” on the other hand?
Isn’t religion contradictory in itself in some respect, by imposing their
ideas on so-called pagans?
How many people have “died by religion“?
How many will follow?
Is the focus on the afterlife more important than the actual life itself?
To what extent can we see religion associated with people living
a religious life?
What’s the definition of a “religious life”?

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Imagine someone addressing you with the words “Hey, there is no God!”

How would you reply? “I know”, “I don’t care”, “Of course there is one”, “Go to hell”?

Write a comment and tell me if you believe in God, and in which God if you do. Or maybe you don’t believe in God at all, and have no use for religion in general.

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