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[immaculate_one]

This is a question I have yet to see asked on this network, though I only have the slightest hypothesis of why.

How have you viewed religion or faith from your home? Has it changed drastically before coming here, or since?

I have been thinking about this lately...

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permanon;

[manufactured]

God - or anyone claiming to be God, for that matter - has yet to earn my faith. There's enough wrong with the world to render the likelihood that such a thing will happen incredibly unlikely.

I consider myself more a realist than a nonbeliever, however, as far as matters of the Divine are involved.

[immaculate_one]

The gods in your world have not shown themselves or left a mark?

[ Unusual. ]

So what beliefs do you use to guide yourself?

[manufactured]

A few years ago, I met someone claiming that they had the right to be a god. That theirs was the right to rule over mankind, and decide who lives or dies among mortal men. Seeing as he was murdered by someone he tried to control shortly after these claims were made, I'd say that he didn't have that right in the first place, however much he thought he did.

That's all the experience I've had with any "gods" attempting to reveal themselves to me. Religion is purely a matter of faith in my world.

I don't have faith in other beings outside of myself. If any god that may exist refuses to do what's required of them, then I will. It's as simple as that in the end.

[immaculate_one]

Anyone could claim themselves a god. Just as many can claim themselves acting in the favor of a god.

There are even those who could claim themselves acting on behalf of a god that truly existed, and they'd still be wrong. In the end, all of them were fools.

[ She wrote that last line with a touch of self-depreciating humor. ]

Having faith in oneself is not a bad idea, but if it's the only thing you have faith in, it seems to be a lonely existence, is it not?

[manufactured]

I suppose that would depend on how much one wants to have faith in others, and the reasons why they feel they can't if such a desire exists.