What keeps the world in chains but your beliefs?

Hello world. The following was written 12/02/2014.

I had written an article titled, “If everything you think you know was taught to you…” that received a number of comments and questions from my brothers. The following dialogues are what transpired.

Brother one asks, “If I may pose a question bringing to light some other of your posts over the past week. If this post reflects how you feel how can you then blame “God” and be outraged at him over what has happened to you in your past if you believe him to solely be a concept or idea people make up to explain things away?”

Brother two states, “I would rather live a life of faith and making efforts to be a blessing to people and find out at the end that I was wrong. Than to live anyway I wanted assuming that God was an imagination and come to the end of my days only to discover that he is real. At that moment the scripture that says it is a fearful thing to fall into the hand of the living God would be more than anyone could bare. Just something else to consider.”

My response, “I ask these questions, yet in the same breath I will state factually that I do believe in God. I have had too many miracles in my life to not believe.

As a child I was told that God was there to protect me and love me. He would help me, all I had to do is ask. What I learned instead is that he wasn’t there. As the visits came in the night and I prayed and asked for God to make it stop it didn’t. It only got…