Unfortunately no Jesus dude, I don't and furthermore I really do not think it's reasonable to expect folks to understand that they are themselves equal to a figment of their imagination, especially for only the reason that you are simply playing around in flowery verbal description...
Agreed. A vast and ever increasing accumulation of knowledge and understanding from systematic study and organized scientific principles, cannot be compared with pretence and enactments of fictitious story telling and happenings told through theological imaginations.
....maybe because sometimes it's that or a lie which is all there is to hold a faith, which allows belief of what they know can't be true.
with apologies to something Mark Twain once dun spoke
"It [martial art] is a quest for self perfection which requires great introspection on the part of the person pursuing this quest, and control over all desires in order to achieve harmonious balance hence the need for great meditative skill."
That, Bernard, is also known as navel gazing and...
What. You mean to say the things you describe as real are not real, not knowledge, and not holy?
The thing called God, or the thing you call our Father, or salvation, are not real.
Jesus. You duplicitous bastard you! (like err, no offence dude :))
You have no grounds for suggesting primitives or ancients were generally any more superior , or even good story tellers. One look at the Bible confirms they were not.
Nor that they were any more at one with reality, unless you consider having to survive by living in a tent or a desert to be...
Argument for God not to be obsolete appears to be only that ...you have X (science) therefore Y (religion) must be the case.
Is it for this reason...?
"Ignorance of Nature gave birth to gods. Knowledge of Nature is calculated to destroy them."
I know I will just hate myself in the morning but...
you say this world (your thoughts) are an illusion and are to be denied. Then It follows, all your thoughts on what you call the Father are an illusion and are to be denied. What you think is to be "remembered", what you say God is or...
I see you have started out already on the level of discussion where waving your virtual willy around is the imperative Then I have at least 3 more qualifications than you and mine is 6" longer. Also as God does not believe in a God, then atheists would be closer to being correct than you are.