Is religion and God all

...in the mind?

I'd say yes, since all you can maybe do is understand them but not physically know them. Am I correct? What do you think?

Or what of religion and God is not all in the mind of you? Expond.

 

Religious belief and God are ideas that aren't observable in external reality, so they are existing in the mind that is existing within the body which is existing within the physical universe. But that's the extent to which an idea exists physically; there must be distinctions made, even by solipsists and idealists (if they hope to live coherently), between things existing in our personal realities and things existing in everyone's reality. Empirical evidence is a good indicator of the latter.

 

cerebral cortex yo.

of course its in the mind.


like how Jay Leno is in the tv. [analogy]

 

Yes, religion is whatever you want it to be.Its created by the human mind.

 

they're not ALL in the mind, BUT, they are two VERY seperate things.

everything we think we know is all in the mind for that matter.
but everything we don't pretend to know is still out there, mostly harmless, and wishing us no particular harm.

every time i stub my toe it tells me there's something out there that isn't in my mind.
it doesn't tell me anything about it, other then that if i don't pay attention to where i'm going i CAN stub my toe.

i believe there are inanimate objects. relatively inanimate that is. and certainly NONsentient. i also believe in benign strangeness. and that there is some sentience in the unknown. and that there's a big, friendly and invisible part of it that loves me and i love it. and a lot of little friendly and invisible parts of it that love me and i them as well.

i agree that people make up most of what they think they know about it. not always themselves. but people make up things all the time for each other.

sometimes though, it comes through them from something out there.

not to all of us for each other. but to many of us for our own selves.
and sometimes, very rarely, through one of us for everyone.

not every making up and imagining is a bad thing.
far from it.
good things can be created that way to.
or rather that can be the beginning of doing so.

much of the unhappiness in this world comes from labeling every imagining a bad thing.

what is harmful is when what we imagine becomes a cause or excuse for causing suffering and harm.

and that, whether we identify ourselves with an established belief, or entirely with our own way of looking at things, is something we don't have to do.

something that is far more important to avoid doing, then the specifics of what anyone does or does not otherwise believe in.