The God Squad And Me

i luuuurve the smell of frankincense in the morning

Great film Leo

You concluded that 2 weeks isn't long enough to find God.

But how long does it take to find God?

How long is a piece of string?

I think every individual takes their own time as their life and experience requires. For some it will be a lightning bolt experience where everything changes within seconds. For others it is years of exploring befire they come into relationship.

Ultimately, for anyone who believes, whether the journey is long or short, there is a moment when they take the step of faith and live in the light of a relationship with God (even while doubts may still remain - faith is not faith without doubt present at some level)

Great doc - thanks for making it

As a Christian, I found this piece to be quite fair and well presented. Nice work, Leo.

A very honest and rounded piece. Being an agnostic myself I totally connected with what he was saying and how he felt. He seemed genuinely open to all of it and prepared to listen. I found his reaction to the holy trinity church fascinating, and the question the dj posed very apt, was it the performance of it all that could get you carried away or was it that god was present? I completey identified with that almost unsettling feeling of the thought of losing contol... I was drawn in from the beginning, his use of subtle humour connected him with the audience and in turn made you want to listen, a great piece.

I have always been in awe of those who claim faith has set them free, or 'lifted the weight" off their shoulders. Call me strange, but for some reason, I like to take personal responsibility for everything that happens in my life. I understand that this is a complex world we live in, but you have to learn to stand strong on your own, and not rely so heart-stakingly much on a GOD to do the living for you. I think it takes a very strong person to be an atheist, because you can't turn around and blame God or the Devil for the rights and wrongs that will find you in this life. All we really have is what we can see, and that is this great earth, and our fellow man. Imagine the world and how it would be if just a fraction of the adoration and praise and love and charity that is given to God, was instead directed towards our fellow man. Churches have a "building fund" for their new gym, but there are familes going to sleep with no heat and very little in their bellies. Christians proudly wear bumper stickers repping their church on their cars, but they fill the lots of the clubs and stripper joints. They use God to justify immoralites and put anyone down who can't bring themselves to beleive what they beleive. I'll give credit where it's due; religion brings out the fear in people. I just hope someday, everyone will wake up and realize that there's nothing to be afraid of. Then, and only then, will we truly ever learn to live as a peaceful race. I'm crossing my fingers for the future.

Exactly, one cannot approach a relationship with God based only on logic and reason.

I believe Faith is something that is sacred. I don't know if it's given to you, or how it comes about. Or if it just happens. But when it does, it's like the world just makes sense and the burden of life is lifted from one's shoulders.

Maybe it's similar to falling in love, no one knows how it happens, but we are lucky if it does. Only faith, continues and grows. As love should...

There's a difference between atheists and agnostics.