This is my very first blog I’ve ever written, so I hope to hear alot of feedback from some readers. As I was growing up, during my kindergarden through third grade school years, I was a believer in God. I attended Christian Private school for the first four academic years. I didn’t know how everything happened, how this world came to be, but I believed what I was told. I believed the creation story, of Adam and Eve, the seven days, and the Serpent. I prayed before each meal, despite how much my dad hated it because it made the food cold. I never really questioned anything, but all of that changed once I got into Public school for my fourth grade year. I know this sounds like an autobiography but stick with me my topic is coming.
As my school years progressed I started to lose my faith. I was made fun of constantly for being over weight, always depressed. I prayed every day for the ridicule and humiliation at my expense to dissipate, but nothing ever happened. I didn’t know why nothing was happening, but it sure wasn’t helping my faith. As years went by it became apparent to me, there was no God. Why would he let such a horrible thing happen to a child? Maybe it was to test my faith, like the moral behind the story of Abraham sacrificing his son Isaac in the bible (because that sounds real loving). So that leaves me to where I am now, a 20 year old Atheist, on the search for the truth, through science, philosophy, or any other method I might encounter.
I apologize if I made you sleep during all the boring backround information, but here is my topic. I want to know why faith is important to an individual. It could be faith in any deity, any super natural being. Faith by dictionary standerds is a belief without any evidence. So if there is no evidence for what you believe to be true, why believe in it? I think that this world is beautiful, I love all plants and animals. But I know how they came to be, through evolution and natural selection. How do I know that, because there is proof, tens of thousands of fossils showing the progression of species through time. There hasn’t been once piece of evidence for the creation story. There seems to be just as much evidence for God’s existence, as there is for Santa Clause, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster. From a philosophical stand point, we can never disprove 100% the existance of God, nor could we prove it (and religious people are not doing very good at convincing us). The most we can do is present the evidence for evolution, and hope that the rational minded people of the world will make the right decision.
But why, since there is obvious proof for evolution, do people choose to remain so ignorant about the origins of life when the information is right under their noses? All they have to do is search for it. From a psycological stand point, maybe it’s because people need a meaning to their lives. It’s not a very good feeling knowing that your only purpose in life is to survive and reproduce.I kind of like that idea, I don’t know about you, but I don’t like the whole idea of heaven and naked angels flying around, there are some people I really would not like to see naked. So maybe Religion is just a crutch for some people, maybe they don’t know anything else but what they were indoctrinated to believe in as children. All I can say is that the truth, through evolution, is much more beautiful to me.
So this being my first blog, I kind of ranted alittle bit. But I would love to get a feel for the community here so please comment if you can. There will be plenty more articles to come on religion. I want to end every article with a quote, so here is my favorite.
“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful, without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?” ~ Douglas Adams
Thank you and God bless.
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