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I am actually christian myself. In fact I am a practicing catholic who goes to church almost every week, although all of my views aren't in line with that of the church. Christianity is not at all contradictory to the views that I have expressed. There is a actually a sect of Christianity that hold many of these beliefs: Gnosticism. If you believe that we are created in the image of god and that we all are a piece of god, then to bypass the ego is to see God with untainted eyes. It is to see the godliness within yourself. It is also to see the humanity within God.


God probably has an ego too. This is evident in the way that we are imperfect. It is also evident when one recounts the stories of the Bible. God seems to be having an internal struggle of his own. God is learning how to deal with his creation. God is even learning what is right and wrong. Think of the story of Noah. God learned that it is wrong for him to drown the world and promised he would never do it again. He then appended the laws of physics to include refraction of light and caused the phenomenon we call a rainbow as the sign of this promise.


I think one of the main problems of Christianity and that of many modern religions is that they separate good and bad into two deities and then make the two deities dichotomous. This then makes people believe that God and the spiritual world are perfect and that the devil has dominion over all that is physical and that he creates all that is bad.


Clearly God is not perfect or else there would be no problems in all of creation, but God is the closest there is to perfection and God is all powerful. One way to see this is that creation is the mind of God. He controls all that exists in his mind which includes the entire universe that we perceive. Then there is the good of God's true self and bad of God's Ego.


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