In a way, though, your 'faith' or 'belief', or whatever it is still shows that you need some invisible something behind the world as it is (as Shaker says, no need to call it the 'natural' world), , and that you have one , imagined, layer between you and reality. Why is that, do you think?
Reality, that is, as it is seen as clearly as it can be by scientists etc who study it, and by all those, since the very earliest atheist - oh, how I'd love to have met him/her - probably the latter!! - who knew there was no invisible something.
#152 'pagan deities'? Surely this should be 'imagined' deities? And by the way, this is not a 'dig' at you, I have been intending to write this thought at pagans in general for some time.
I will ignore the
"I have been intending to write this thought at pagans in general"
as there are only two of us on this Forum and we follow vastly different paths. I am the only one who recognises pagan deities.
You can call my deities whatever you like. Call them Chalk and Cheese, Mutt and Jeff, Sassy and Hope for all I care - it matters not one iota to me - the same comment, however, needs to be applied, by you, to the deities of Christianity and all other religions.
I can just imagine the kind of response you would get when telling Ad_O that his god is imaginary!
I have said before but will say it again, my deities are as real to me as are my hands and feet and are as useful. What my deities are to you is no matter to me, only to you.
You don't like it that way - tough! It works for me.
