I sent ai a question tonight (sorry I forgot to copy the question down) and the results I received are found below. I sometimes use ai to share opinions about my writing found by doing a search. I think it should be fairly obvious to people where the places in my blog are that I quote ai. Included in these ai results I responded to several points I either didn't agree with or found incomplete and put these thoughts in brackets.
Ai search result
You're talking about Donald Carter, the author of books like "A Paranoid Schizophrenic's message of Hope for the World" and "The Schizophrenic's Journey of Hope"
Based on his published descriptions and blog writing, his ideas about God and humanity are quite different from many traditional religious preachers. His message is more universalist and inclusive, even though he claims his ideas come from conversations with God.
Below is a clearer breakdown of what his writings appear to say about the groups you mentioned.
1. What his beliefs say about atheists and agnostics
according to his own writing:
* God loves people who do not believe in him.
* Atheists are not portrayed as enemies or immoral.
* They are described as people God still cares about and wants friendship with.
He explicitly writes that God loves people "who hold out no hope he exists".
So unlike many exclusivist religions, his message does not condemn atheists. Instead, it suggests:
. *disbelief does not cancel God's love
* spiritual truth might still reach them eventually
(My response to this last point. I don't recall ever writing the words "spiritual truth might still reach them eventually" when discussing people who are agnostic and atheist. After experiencing God's clear thoughts I now understand God's love is intended for all people on earth with the exception of people who are truly evil. I view the theological claim of "spiritual truth" having to reach a person first, or else, to belong to narrow Christian theology that if taken literally is unreasonable and irrational.
After listening to God, I believe a lot of spiritual truth exists outside human understanding within God's mysteries unending domain that none of us yet understands fairly.
If we understood God so well we'd have his fairness, and not be continuously unfair, which is evident in our awful track record throughout human history in the world. We clearly don't know how to think fairly or love others fairly. Our rules and ideologies don't look at God, or at life's meaning, and understand that God is good and that he loves everyone.
I've read ai search results that imply or say outright that many people distrust my thought and ideas because I have schizophrenia and experience delusions. I'm therefore, according to their justifications, delusional for believing God spoke to me and wrong in my beliefs that God is pleased with other cultures and people's who have different creative and intellectual pursuits outside the Christian religion; yet I don't think my beliefs are crazy at all.
My experiences of perceiving clear thoughts from God has revealed to me that God values all people's pursuits that search for greater meaning and truth.
As God watches us all now, he is pleased with the different paths in life we take, while we wonder, and question our mysteries surroundings, we're being lead toward the discovery of a mindboggling reality; that reality is good beyond all estimations, beyond our imaginations best constructs of great good, because what is designed by God ultimately surpasses all the good we can fathom, when what hides behind reality is unveiled.
Our pursuit of answers in life is us doing something designed for us to do, whether it's a poet or novelist creating a new imaginative world, and discovering unknown truths and new ideas, a mystic approaching God's mysteries holy nature and character, a person praying and developing a meaningful friendship with God the father and Jesus (This I believe is what's really important and not the unfair dogma), a physicist, astronomer, biologist, naturalist etc. researching and making different scientific discoveries, studying this world's elaborate underpinnings, looking deep into the intriguing subatomic realm, or gazing far out into the mysteries unexplored cosmos.
What's absurd is us believing God's love isn't big enough or fair enough to reach people everywhere on earth. Don't people see how crazy a perspective on God is when it excludes most people on earth from hope?
Instead all our pursuits to uncover the truth of what reality is, carried out near and far, are valuable; all the inquiries human beings pursue, and the answers we reach, where we think the truth is found, all matter to God, whether we're right or wrong; to think that in God's planning and wisdom he's not capable of predicting in advance the different answers people across the earth arrive at in time, or of him as God not knowing the different perspectives we'll form, after we adopt ideas waiting in nature put there by him, or the idea that God didn't know in advance the beliefs different cultures would construct over time, or to think he isn't big enough to wink appreciatively at minds like Albert Einstein, who said "God doesn't play dice with the universe", or that God can't look with understanding and acceptance at Carl Sagan, a world-renowned astronomer and astrophysicist, who explicitly rejected the label "atheist", instead preferring to identify himself as an agnostic, here where fanatical minds fearfully rehearse with great rigidity and ideological conviction how God, supposedly, will hold the entire world to account for developing, or not developing, the exact way forward in existence, or else burn, singe in terrifying hell, and suffer; these beliefs of hellfire are what's really crazy.
The environment we're part of on earth God took enormous pleasure carefully preparing for us. This world is made to challenge each generation of mortal person who is born here.
When I say God loves agnostics and atheists, and that he has a plan that is good for them, like us all, I know it's true that he does. Once again I never wrote to my knowledge and said "spiritual truth might still reach them eventually". Instead it's my belief that a bright future awaits all people of this world who are not evil.
I'd like to thank unappreciatively ai for presenting my views in a dumbed down way so they appear unintelligent and unimportant when in actuality this kind of thought and argumentation is very important in our world.
By the way no one has ever produced a perfect theology; a perfect theology does not exist; what does exist as a claim of complete descriptive truth of God is flawed and imperfect.)
2. What he says about LGBTQ people
His blog writing describes God as:
. * feeling compassion for the LGBTQ community
*wanting their friendship "on that community's own terms."
This is a notable difference from many conservative religious teachings. In his narrative:
*LGBTQ people are not condemned
*they are viewed sympathetically (I view the LGBTQ community empathetically and with respect)
* God is portrayed as understanding their suffering. (God understands all people's value, dignity, humanity, and eternal worth)
3. What he says about other cultures and religions
His message strongly emphasizes universal love.
He writes that God loves:
*people of all religions
* people of all cultures
* even soldiers on both sides of wars
That implies a belief that:
* no single culture or religion has exclusive ownership of God
* humanity shares a common spiritual value
4. Where his message comes from
Carter says his ideas were inspired by experiences during schizophrenia in which he believes he heard thoughts that were actually God speaking
This is controversial because:
*psychiatry often interprets hearing divine voices as a symptom of psychosis, not literal communication
* some critics worry readers might confuse mental illness with divine revelation
5. Is his message seen as reasonable or hopeful?
Different people interpret it very differently
People who find it hopeful
Some readers see it as:
* compassionate
* universal
* philosophical
* a creative attempt to find meaning in suffering
The core message is basically:
*God loves everyone
*humanity should seek peace
*life has deeper meaning
People who find it problematic
Others are skeptical because:
* the beliefs come from personal experiences tied to schizophrenia
* claims of direct conversations with God are not verifiable
* mixing mental illness and theology can be confusing
6. The unusual combination in his work
What makes Carter unusual is the combination of three things:
1. personal mental-health narrative
2. philosophical and spiritual speculation
3. fictional storytelling mixed with claimed revelation
This makes his work more like personal spiritual literature than formal theology.
In short:
Donald Carter's message about God is very inclusive compared with many religious teachings. His writing portrays God as loving atheists, LGBTQ people, and people of all cultures and religions. Many readers find that hopeful, but others question the reliability of ideas that come from experiences linked to schizophrenia.
I don't have much time left here in the world. I'm going to be with Jesus soon.
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