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Finding  God by Faith and Reason  --  Where religion meets reality --  
Where reality meets religion  --  Where mind, heart, the evidence, common sense,
and God are equal partners  --  Where The God of Faith and Reason can be found.
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Religion and Reality      ---     Faith and Reason      ---     Reality and Religion

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Finding God
By Faith   
 
And    
By Reason

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In Case You Hadn't Noticed

Humanity is in Big Trouble

BUT . . .    here's the secret that nobody has been telling you:   
You hold the silver bullet that can  stop "the enemy."   You hold the holy grail filled with the elixirs of life.    You hold the magic key to the Garden of Eden.   And at any time you choose, you can call the heroes to the rescue.   Here's how:

We (collectively speaking) are well into a cycle of critically-important  human transformations.   Major,  global-level, environmental, economic, social, political, and religious transformations are already beginning to sweep away life as we have known it.   This is a time of either great tragedy or great blessing and you and I are at choice as to which it shall be.   Based entirely on what we believe, each and every one of us is pushing human kind either closer to oblivion or closer to a successful transformation into an age of self-awareness.   We have two choices:  

1) We can apply the normal, historical,  human responses to this crisis which include: 

a)   To sit back and do nothing except make excuses like: "There's nothing I can do." and then to blame someone else for all the problems.    

b)  To ignore the causes of our problems and declare war on the symptoms -- war on drugs,  war on terrorism,  war on poverty, et cetera.   (Yes, war, misuse of drugs, terrorism, and poverty are all symptoms each of which has an underlying root cause.)

c)  To do more of  the same,  and/or 

d)   To do the same thing harder. 

The Result of following option one is guaranteed Disaster 

2)   Fortunately, there is a second option.  We ( both individually and collectively)  can look at the root causes of our problems and actually use this unique time on Earth to make a huge leap into the age of enlightenment.  

Where are these root causes and what are they?  The root causes  aren't out there somewhere.  They are right here at home  -- my home, your home, your neighbors home -- every home on the planet.   They are our personal and collective thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, opinions, and the dysfunctional behaviors which these beliefs personally and collectively lead us into.   

The primary source of our dysfunctional beliefs and behaviors comes from the illusions, the false stories  and unprovable legends we accept as is if they were the absolute truth.   For example, how many millions of people believe the following unprovable stories:   Humans are inherently evil.   Humans are separate from nature.   Humans are separate from each other.   A human being is his or her physical body.   Life begins at conception when God steps in and magically creates a brand-new, eternal being.   Humans are separate from the source of creation.   God is a superhuman being who lives somewhere above the clouds in a place called heaven.   God has a personality like humans have.    Humans know the truth about God.   God demands that we behave in certain ways -- that we do "this" and don't do "that."   God wants and needs something from you and if He doesn't get it, you'll be severely punished.   

The believed-to-be-truths about the above stories are the assumptions upon which many people base their lives and their day-to-day behavior.   And as you well know, any so-called truth which is  based on an unprovable assumption is also an unprovable assumption.   It's a belief!  It is NOT a fact!   This leaves millions of people living lives based on unproven, seriously questionable, and/or patently false beliefs.

How many million people say that their religion gives them God's one and only correct truth?   How many millions of people believe exactly the same thing about some other religion?   How many million people believe that it's okay to restrict, damage, or destroy someone based upon what they believe about God?   

How many million people  believe that they know what God wants you to do and are also willing to use violence or threat of violence to force you to do it?   How many millions of people  believe that they know that God wants them to do or not do something?   How many million people believe that:  1)  they  have to do what God wants them to  and 2)  no matter how vile and despicable that act is,  if they do it, they'll be rewarded in heaven?   And here's the core belief of all beliefs --  The Earth isn't really round; it's flat!  

Well, okay,  that's not really the core belief of all beliefs,   and there probably isn't anybody that still  believes the Earth is flat.   But. . .    Why would an otherwise-sane human being strongly believe and become violent to protect his belief in a bunch of ancient fairytales that are equally as unbelievable -- ancient stories that he learned as very young child and never seriously questioned --  stories that defy both the present-day physical evidence and common sense -- stories that are in direct contradiction with the beliefs of millions of his fellow humans -- stories  that produce behaviors that  ignore the plight of his only home (spaceship Earth)  -- stories  that will leave his children and grandchildren in serious jeopardy?    

Not only that, the vast majority of us have been trained,  since birth, to distrust, dislike or even hate ourselves and also to distrust, dislike and/or even hate everyone who is not like us.   The vast majority of us are filled with fixed expectations,  self-judgments, negative emotions, subtle or not-so-subtle self-loathing,  self-pity,  and the like.  

Our beliefs about ourselves, about God,  and about each other result in self-punishment and self-deprivation behavior and/or destructive social behaviors such as:  "Let's punish so and so because his truth is wrong." **   A very common human response to highly emotional, social  problems is to say something like:  "It's impossible for me to effect this." --  "It's inevitable" -- "It can't be any other way."  -- "God is punishing us for our sins."  -- "War, death and destruction are okay, because the world is about to end any day now."

**  The real reason is: "Lets stop him from threatening our beliefs.

Beliefs, as will be explained in detail  in this program, dictate and control ALL human behavior.  If we are going to survive this global transformation,  we must first and foremost, look at what we believe, unless, of course, everything in your life and everything in your world is already functioning at  a sustainable  level of excellence.   

The Bottom Line:  You are at the doorways into two, very different possibilities  1)    The world of death and destruction  or 2)   The world of new possibilities.   If you choose door number two:   

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The God of Faith & Reason

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