Week 14 Posting

I think that the single most best piece of information that I have come across and will be incorporating in my final project is the book The God of Nowhere and Nothing  by Nels Ferre.  This book gives insight to different kinds of religious outlooks.  He also shares how him and his family all attended that same church growing up and yet they all have different outlooks on Christianity and Religion.  They would attend the exact same sermons and get completely different messages out of them.  But up until I had read this book I thought I was simply athiest and believed in nothingness, which really didnt sum it up to its fullest extent.  It gives incite to ways of Theism(Most similar to Christianity) Deism, Pantheism, Atheism, and other outlooks on the subject.  I found that pantheism is more of what I believe.  I think that people simply dont take enough time to sit down and really think about what they believe and why they believe in it so much.  There are sooo many others ways to live that are out there and it is just naive to think that they have choosen the right one out of millions of different religions.  Most people dont even make themselves aware of the other teachings, because it goes directly against what they do believe in.  We need to fill ourselves with information and then make the best decision according to ourselves, no what others show us.  To question their faith in Jesus is just too scary to imagine.