So, most of our public schools and universities in the West have been essentially DISCOUNTING religion — and in general, the more education we receive in the West, the LESS religious we become

I suggest that the reason the negation persists is that the serious evidence AGAINST belief is just much more OBVIOUS than is the serious evidence FOR belief 

But then – the evidence FOR belief — ONCE RECOGNIZED — is almost IRRESISTIBLE

That’s where I’m going

For now, at least, I’m including the “paranormal,” or “supernatural” and “immortality” as “magical” – I suspect that someday we’ll be able to explain such through normal cause and effect, but for now, they APPEAR to actually exist, and we have no scientifically accepted explanation for them

Maybe, I should call them “semi-magical”

Whereas Free Will places us ABOVE CAUSE AND EFFECT, and “Ultimate Meaning” REQUIRES free will

Most of us humans’ figure that we do have free will in that our behavior is the result of external realities but also OUR OWN TRAITS AND VALUES

The problem, however, is that our own ORIGINAL traits and values must have been determined by EXTERNAL REALITIES — we could hardly be responsible for our own traits and values before we existed

Taking that into account, cause and effect SHOULD rule

In other words, our behavior would seem to be COMPLETELY determined by external realities — and free will is not possible

In more other words — I can “PROVE” that there is no such thing as free will and that NO ONE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING… https://what-it-s-all-about.life/free-will/

However, I BELIEVE IN FREE WILL ANYWAY!

Most likely, you do also

We seem to be missing something…

If free will is real, you and I ARE simply “magical” — WE ARE SOMEHOW ABOVE THE LAWS OF CAUSE AND EFFECT

We are little Gods — perhaps, we are parts of God

Perhaps, we are parts of a “universal consciousness”

(I urge you to look that one up)

If we have free will, we are at least, LIKE little Gods — and, cause and effect DOES NOT rule!

Religions are laced with magic — my CONTENTION is that reality is also…

More to come…