Before you ask me what I believe, think a little more on what there is to believe in.
What do I believe?
Well it's a question *1 I have been asked in a few different ways for a few different reasons but as with any question of this nature it is really hard to give a straight and succinct answer, mostly because those four very small and tidy words actually encompass a world of variety and difference as the one we call our home. From dramatic mountain tops of truth to the crushing depths of the ocean floor of argument through the plains of debate through to the cities of misunderstanding and miscommunication. There is even a tiny little house that looks something like your own sat way in the distance that resembles the answer you already believe you know to either back up the views you already have and to strengthen them or so you can argue that my stand point is wrong as it cuts across yours like a cat running across the road causing you to pull up sharply in your happy little car of belief.
Its has been put to me that I do not or cannot believe in God as I write about demons, Demons or in one case 'DEMONS OF THE BLACKEST HELL'. I like to put that for the demons or if you prefer Demons *2 to exist then there had to be a God to cast them from his side, or for them to voluntarily leave which is another very valid stand point. And to believe in Demons who walk amongst us, doesn't that strengthen my belief in God because he *3 must be there for them to be able to amble down Bond Street on an afternoon taking in the atmosphere and stopping to sample a nice red in their favourite bistro.
Nor does it make me lean on the Christian view or Jehovah scriptures of God, although from the words I have written on the subject I can see how this can be seen; its just that these view points have been what I have grown up with and are the easiest to research than a lot of other smaller views. But if you are open to looking at things from a different point then I invite you to read a Bible older than King James if you can, there are a few accessible ones out there that have been translated and with numerous notes. The differences to what you know or think you know are very.......interesting.
There are those who have invited me to join Satanic groups or who have sent me Satanic literature and essays which have been as fascinating as they were educational. From these I have been asked "What do you believe?" because my writings have leaned on the side that Satan is an all powerful force influencing our lives, which proves God cannot exist or that God isn't as great.
From these views I reflect back on an easier way to explain it to myself. If you look upon our own Royal family, if you are new to the concept and the greater dynamic it can appear confusing with a Queen as the head and a Prince as her husband with Princes and Princesses directly below her and yet more ne generation below them. Some Princes or Princesses are 'higher' up the tree than others, some a second generation down are yet more important than some that have direct links to the Queen whether as siblings or cousins from the same generation. You may not know all their names or know what they all do or how they fit into the pantheon of Windsor, but they are there all filling a role and continuing to promote themselves and the Country/business/charities etc. that they work within.
For it all to work you need to have the Queen for all the others to be there (although it doesn't answer if He had parents that set him on his throne with or without anyone abdicating). Although this description of it all would make it hard for anyone to say.
"I don't believe in the Queen at all, but that Prince Charles, now there is a man who knows what he's talking about."
Just because I have written about what I know and to some degree happy to promote, mock, expand upon or educate with, the simplified Christian themes and characters doesn't mean I don't appreciate the many different religious views that people hold dear around the world. In fact from what I have spoken to people about and read, there are a lot more similarities than differences. Even in some of the older and more interesting belief structures there are links to our own whether in stories of arks and great floods, the saviour of people from tyranny, the promise of a saviour and in some cases the ability to hold a massive picnic with very little raw ingredients, and even more miraculously, no one argued about the bill or who had a starter or an extra drink.
And if you think about it, I mean really think about it, don't stories change over time? Was it a glass slipper or a fur boot? Was it a wood cutter or a hunter? Does it matter, its fundamentally the same story but the parts have been recast to make them more accessible to the modern audiences.
Name change over time as well, just look at the modern world with email and webpage display names. At first you could be littlemiss21@email.com or hotsexydiva6969@addressoncomputer.co.uk which changes as you do to missgranger@mymail.com through to mrsthompson@schoolrun.org. I doubt there are many 40 year old accountants with gangster-mad.dog.666@boyzrule.co.uk as their work email. So why can't Gorriah the Destroyer become Goliath the Great to Gol the Benevolent to God? Or all the angels and demons have once, in their youth, been gods of thunder and wine before growing up and maturing into a proper job with responsibilities and a car big enough for the kids and a dog?
Of course none of this actually even starts to answer the question of what I believe, or if I believe in anything at all; but it does make the person asking the question think a little deeper in crafting a question about belief in a more unique way if they expect a straight answer from me.
Chris Norgate, November 2016
*1 In the format, "What do you believe?"
*2 I know what I prefer but there is a world of taste out there.
*3 I use the title 'he' for speed of description and identification and not because I
fundamentally believe He would be male, after all He can multi-task!
Well it's a question *1 I have been asked in a few different ways for a few different reasons but as with any question of this nature it is really hard to give a straight and succinct answer, mostly because those four very small and tidy words actually encompass a world of variety and difference as the one we call our home. From dramatic mountain tops of truth to the crushing depths of the ocean floor of argument through the plains of debate through to the cities of misunderstanding and miscommunication. There is even a tiny little house that looks something like your own sat way in the distance that resembles the answer you already believe you know to either back up the views you already have and to strengthen them or so you can argue that my stand point is wrong as it cuts across yours like a cat running across the road causing you to pull up sharply in your happy little car of belief.
Its has been put to me that I do not or cannot believe in God as I write about demons, Demons or in one case 'DEMONS OF THE BLACKEST HELL'. I like to put that for the demons or if you prefer Demons *2 to exist then there had to be a God to cast them from his side, or for them to voluntarily leave which is another very valid stand point. And to believe in Demons who walk amongst us, doesn't that strengthen my belief in God because he *3 must be there for them to be able to amble down Bond Street on an afternoon taking in the atmosphere and stopping to sample a nice red in their favourite bistro.
Nor does it make me lean on the Christian view or Jehovah scriptures of God, although from the words I have written on the subject I can see how this can be seen; its just that these view points have been what I have grown up with and are the easiest to research than a lot of other smaller views. But if you are open to looking at things from a different point then I invite you to read a Bible older than King James if you can, there are a few accessible ones out there that have been translated and with numerous notes. The differences to what you know or think you know are very.......interesting.
There are those who have invited me to join Satanic groups or who have sent me Satanic literature and essays which have been as fascinating as they were educational. From these I have been asked "What do you believe?" because my writings have leaned on the side that Satan is an all powerful force influencing our lives, which proves God cannot exist or that God isn't as great.
From these views I reflect back on an easier way to explain it to myself. If you look upon our own Royal family, if you are new to the concept and the greater dynamic it can appear confusing with a Queen as the head and a Prince as her husband with Princes and Princesses directly below her and yet more ne generation below them. Some Princes or Princesses are 'higher' up the tree than others, some a second generation down are yet more important than some that have direct links to the Queen whether as siblings or cousins from the same generation. You may not know all their names or know what they all do or how they fit into the pantheon of Windsor, but they are there all filling a role and continuing to promote themselves and the Country/business/charities etc. that they work within.
For it all to work you need to have the Queen for all the others to be there (although it doesn't answer if He had parents that set him on his throne with or without anyone abdicating). Although this description of it all would make it hard for anyone to say.
"I don't believe in the Queen at all, but that Prince Charles, now there is a man who knows what he's talking about."
Just because I have written about what I know and to some degree happy to promote, mock, expand upon or educate with, the simplified Christian themes and characters doesn't mean I don't appreciate the many different religious views that people hold dear around the world. In fact from what I have spoken to people about and read, there are a lot more similarities than differences. Even in some of the older and more interesting belief structures there are links to our own whether in stories of arks and great floods, the saviour of people from tyranny, the promise of a saviour and in some cases the ability to hold a massive picnic with very little raw ingredients, and even more miraculously, no one argued about the bill or who had a starter or an extra drink.
And if you think about it, I mean really think about it, don't stories change over time? Was it a glass slipper or a fur boot? Was it a wood cutter or a hunter? Does it matter, its fundamentally the same story but the parts have been recast to make them more accessible to the modern audiences.
Name change over time as well, just look at the modern world with email and webpage display names. At first you could be littlemiss21@email.com or hotsexydiva6969@addressoncomputer.co.uk which changes as you do to missgranger@mymail.com through to mrsthompson@schoolrun.org. I doubt there are many 40 year old accountants with gangster-mad.dog.666@boyzrule.co.uk as their work email. So why can't Gorriah the Destroyer become Goliath the Great to Gol the Benevolent to God? Or all the angels and demons have once, in their youth, been gods of thunder and wine before growing up and maturing into a proper job with responsibilities and a car big enough for the kids and a dog?
Of course none of this actually even starts to answer the question of what I believe, or if I believe in anything at all; but it does make the person asking the question think a little deeper in crafting a question about belief in a more unique way if they expect a straight answer from me.
Chris Norgate, November 2016
*1 In the format, "What do you believe?"
*2 I know what I prefer but there is a world of taste out there.
*3 I use the title 'he' for speed of description and identification and not because I
fundamentally believe He would be male, after all He can multi-task!
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