I have tried to be clear regarding the creation of this thread.
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Going back to the caves [no doubt] God and religion factor into human interactions. In part because our brain is hard-wired through the evolution of life on earth to be “self-conscious”. We have the capacity to connect the dots between “in my head” and “out in the world”. And in a manner that far and away exceeds the capacity of any other creature on this planet.
Though, indeed, there may be creatures on other planets that far and away exceed us.
This involves first and foremost a capacity to think up The Big Questions: Why something and not nothing at all? Why this something and not another something instead?
Clearly the existence a God, the God, my God is one possible explanation.
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Any particular individual will believe in God, not believe in God or be uncertain. And this is clearly rooted existentially in many, many vast and varied historical, cultural and experiential contexts. Also, any particular individual will interact with others of her kind or not interact with others of her kind. The vast majority of us do. And, as a result of this, our interactions precipitate conflicts that revolve around one or another set of behaviors that revolve around one or another set of values. With or without God. In turn, all of us will die. And that precipitates thoughts and feelings [in any particular individual] regarding our fate on the other side.
This thread was created in order for those individuals who do believe in God to discuss the manner in which they intertwine their behaviors on this side of the grave as that relates to the manner in which they have come to imagine their fate on the other side.
In other words, these narratives will [hopefully] be as far removed from “intellectual contraptions” as it is possible to convey in a forum such as this.