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Living the Agnostic Life and Teaching your Family to do the same

What is being agnostic? Well it means we do not believe until we have seen. We don't doubt but live with an open mind. Can you still have faith--- what is faith? “the substance of things believed for but not seen”. Yes, you can have faith and be agnostic-you have not seen but until proven otherwise we take what we say may be the “scientific approach”-no not evolution. Always living as if there were a God, but not knowing. Why would we take this approach and much less want to teach it to our children? Many, many reasons---Some of them being the multitude of religions and not knowing which one to follow. Catholic, Baptist, Protestant, Jewish, Hinduism, Buddhism. What is right and what is wrong? If each individual chooses to live the agnostic life, then you believe when you have seen? Choosing this way, you do not choose the wrong religion or be forced into following our parents footsteps. Its kind of like being thrown out in the middle of no where and saying ok, your on your ownfind your way home. How? Were you ever in girl scouts, what do they teach you when lost in the woods, make marks on the trees, bend branches, send out signals, look for signs, bring a mirror with you to reflect the light against the sun so it shines if your lost. Can you find your way the dark? Its hard, sometimes we need assistance, flashlights, candles. Have any of us ever seen God? Does he exist? Can we scientifically prove his existence? Have you ever hoped for a christmas present. A red bicycle, or a special doll. You hope with all your heart that you will get it, but you just don't know until Christmas Day arrives. The second coming of Jesus Christ, we hope for the day to be redeemed and live an eternal life foreverright? We just don't know until that day arrives. What about the first coming of Jesus Christ, we don't know that either because we were not around when it happened. We are stuck in the middle of life, don't know what happened before and don't know what is happening in the future. Born after a time when Jesus Christ was born as history and the bible say and living until he returns again as the bible says. “Faith” the substance of things hoped for, but not seen.

Were you ever a little child and think to yourself, what they heck am I here for? What is my purpose, where am I supposed to be and what am I supposed to do.

Living agnostically, again does not mean that you do not believe in God, it means you'll believe when seen. Well the the best thing to do, would be to start out on the search for your way homebut how do we get there, and which road do we take? The road to redemption. What is redemption and how can I be saved if I don't believe? Well remember, its not that you don't believe but more or less are taking the scientific approach. A girlscout or boyscout lost in the woods looking for signals and signs; a way out of the forest, out of the cold. What books do I read?II guess if we are taking the scientific approach we read as much as we can about everything, we analyze and look, like we are in a laboratory, trying to find the next cure. We can chart, graph, compare. We can see how many people are in what religion, what religion is most popular in certain geographic areas, what religions are in foreign countries? What religion seems to be the most popular and which one do people seem to jump on the bandwagon for? Agreed, this is much more difficult than following the steps of our forefathers and just believing what we are told! Think about it, we are told not to smoke as children and what do most children do? Smoke. Why ---because we are told not to. If were told not to do something it must be fun or worth trying, right? We are taught, the cycle of life is your born live and die, right? Well it seems so, because people are born daily and die daily. Where do we go when they die and where do we come from when were bornno laughing!!!! Science proves to us that we are created from the sperm in a man and an egg from a woman. We now have come to the point where we create people in petri dishes, a dash of this and a little of that and bingo just the right temperature---you have an embryo---implant it in a womb and nine months later we have a baby. Our we responsible for our eggs and sperm and should we donate them or sell them? Are they not part of you and who you are. Questions and answers, what is right what is wrong and just what do you believe?

Now lets back up the trolly really, really far. Picture yourself a hungry child, no food, no love and not a warm bed to sleep. What do you worry about, the basic necessities to fill your need, food to eat, a blanket to keep warm and someone to hug. You struggle daily for your next meal, your out in the cold. The only way out, is education learrn how to plant, how to make clothes, how to build a fire. Back to the hunter gatherer days? Your needs here as this child are to stay alive. This child has no leisure time and probably will be raising a family of their own in early teenage years. How do we break the cycle of bad choices, wrong choices, process of eliminationeducation.

Children go to public school, is God there and if so which one? Can we see God? We hope for the best for our children, we want them to be the smartest, prettiest, the fastest. Are we not all connected? Many times @ work I would do something to help someone else out just to be kind and more times than not someone gets sick or someone goes home and you find out the person you have helped is yourself. The work you have done for another turns out to be the work YOU are assigned to do. Every time you do something think of thatit just might be you or your own in the end that you are helping out. How do we deal with anger, well anger begets anger but a soft spoken word to a harsh tone will change anger. If you are screamed at as a child chances are more than not you will grow up to be a very loud arrogant person---why, you had to learn to defend yourself to survive. If you grow up in a soft spoken house where music is played and songs are sung chances are you will be soft spoken, kind and patient.

How do we disprove a lie, ever been lied to? You search for the truth, look for the answer. Every avenue possibly, to find out the truth you use. Who we are is what we feel, what we believe and what is in our heart. My search is for love, the love I have found NEVER lets go, lifts you when your down and is all around. You can find it in another if you want, pass it on to your children. Love is patient, kind, gentle, caring! Unfortunately in this world there are many people seeking to destroy love. Can we love a God we have not seen? Yes we can. We can look for signs, hopes and dreams.

In this drive thru world where everything is instantaneous, it may not be that way with God. I write as if I have seen, maybe I have, maybe I have not,  but for you, you must look search and believe until you see and find. Seek and you shall find, listen and you shall learn,  open the door for one   and you may teach thousands. The work we do today may help us out tomorrow. Look to the future, understand the past and educate yourself, having an open mind on everthying.