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Somewhere deep inside, there is a part of me that would like to believe that God exists. This makes it hard to consider myself an athiest. And yet, if one exists, I doubt that it resembles the God that Christians describe.
I'm also willing to accept that my feelings are based on a yearning for there to be something more to life that just our time here on this planet. That, if we lead good lives and treat others well, we might be rewarded with another go around or something. And yet, logic tells me that this is truly all that there is and we better make the best of our time here, for we only get one chance to live and then, that is that.
I certainly don't believe that there is a God that is pre-occupied with what gender of person we choose to become intimate with. I think God would be far more concerned with why we seem to have this penchant for killing one another.
In recent years, I have found that aspects of the eastern religions, notably Buddhism, make a lot more sense to me and no belief in a god is demanded.
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