What is right?

Do you feel bad for doubting the existence of God? How do you view God? Is it the christian God; is it the Muslim one; is it the Hindu God? Does it matter?

Is there an afterlife that I am supposed to put all of my effort toward. Won't that, in effect, turn me into a beast of burden? For those who do not believe in an afterlife, the question of working for an afterlife seems absurd.

I am of the opinion, since we don't have any evidence, that the God (if there is such a conscious being) of this reality is not here to make us obey any rules that are not life affirming. If there is a creator God (who cares about us), then any instruction he would give would be to help us, to further our life and being. Why? For what purpose? To live better; not to live worse today for a better life after death.

So, a loving caring God would want us to live to the best of our ability in the way that we are supposed to live? How, then, do we figure out how to live? Since there is no evidence of a God, I am not going to blindly follow any "words of God." Instead, I think that we have evidence on how to live correctly. This evidence is found in life itself and the way that life works best.

Life is natural, despite what some of "divine" texts tell us about our inherent human nature. Objectively, without religious influence and with reason, how are we as human beings to live in order to affirm our life and all life around us? That is the question I think we should all be trying to answer. What is right?

Poster: MRM