God. I want to say something about God. And religion.

I very much want to say something.

I hate the way the world has all this strife going on often in the name of religion and even more often obviously between religious groups but without ever mentioning religion as the cause.

I hate the way the world's people slavishly follow all these religious leaders supposedly in possession of some special knowledge that gives them a right to tell other people how they should live, what they should do, how they should think, what they should believe, what they should wear, who they should hate and kill.....

I hate the way friends and relatives turn to religion and then begin manifesting a kind of behaviour I find difficult to describe: something about sending bible quotations all around, praying for me, adopting a moral high ground, assuming a pose of superior knowledge, manifesting an apparent belief in spurious or doubtful writings.....

I hate the way scientists - so many - seem to have adopted a jeering attitude towards all religions and believers.

And I have a long history, from my earliest childhood, of interest in and close emotional and intellectual connection with the writings of the christian bible.

So I have something to say and I want to say it.

But I don't know how.

Every time I try it all comes out disjointed and almost incoherent.

I can't put together a book, nothing remotely like it, I can't even put together a pamphlet, I can't even put together a cogent argument or even an interesting sentence it often seems to me.

But I've got to do something so I'm going to do it. Here. And now. At least make a start.

All I will be able to do, I think, is put down disjointed thoughts as they occur to me.

So here goes, here's the first one:

* Of course there's a god. A God. In fact there's nothing else. The discussion can only be about the nature of God, not about the reality or otherwise of God.

That's all I can think of at the moment. I've got mundane matters such as looking after a toddler to attend to.

Back later.