religion is it real

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A gorgeous fren felllow blogger of mine picked up an interesting comment quite soemtime back...(she no longer blogs) touching on religion, not by comparison, not by discrimination but the questions one ask themselves. With the advent of the internet, cable tv, progress in science the strengthening of religion, its roots, its teaching are being tested by human nature itself.

Day by day we are bombarded by the main stream media wiht events taking place in our backyard, and aournd the world, from henious crimes to tragic stories...soon those question will be raised with more awareness since the movie "Da Vince Code" will be coming out in the summer...I am reading the book now...

Why did religion exist? or rather how? All someone has to do is look where people are most religious. In poor, stressed or uneducated societies religion is usually very popular. In nations religion become far less practised and popular as the become developed and the people become better educated in formal unbias school systems. In becoming educated about such fundamental points and topics people who where once ignorant of the way things work now are better able to grasp the world around them. (ie, world being round, dinosaur bones being real, lightning just electricity - not gods wrath or vadai's wrath wakakakka)


The idea of sky fairies (angels) and demons and the entire world being created in 6 days becomes less and less plausible when proven mathematical models, observation and experimentation can be done. They know and can observe that the universe is about 14 billion years old and expanding. Evolution is not a theory, it is proven experimented fact. Carbon dating of organic materials reveals living humans, plants and animals tens of thousands of years old. These are just a brief list of items that we now know and understand because we have the science, technology and education to study them. Seen, touched and tasted concept.

Religions that our ancestors came up with where the only means they had to explain the world around them. Truth or not, they did the job until new discoveries started to conflict with the religions deepest explanations. We discoverd that the earth is round not flat. Magellen was imprisoned for saying it was round. Galilleo was also reprimanded by the church for his telescope. The cardinals refused to look through it into the nights sky in the same manner that most religious followers refuse to look at any scientific data regarding evolution, big-bang/inflation of the universe and now (possibly most importantly) super-string theory.

Day after day we get disillusion as more and more scientific evidence surfaced and religion just pushes them away without addressing them. This creates a disillusion society parting right in the middleIts true we don't know exactly what gravity is, or things like the uncertainty principle of particles. But we know much more thanks to science about the truth of our universe than any religion can even come close to. Religion and the idea of a 'god' begins to diminish as we begin to understand more. Morality, respect and acts of kindness to fellow humans and creatures also has little to do with religion, and more so to do with a functioning and developed sense of community. A community of human beings, not sheep. So why believe in a god just 'because everyone else is'? Group/mob mentality.

We have real answers to the world around us thanks to science (ones to real questions, not to philosophical ones that aren't meant to be), and the answers that we don't have just haven't been found yet. To believe in a god that created everything is to bury your head in the sand, undermine intellectual progress and relinquish all ideas of self responsibility. Its easier and more comforting to many, but so is believing in Santa Claus. Hehehe Think, learn about what we DO know through science, then (and only then) decide if you think its bunk; and that an invisible man in the sky sounds much more reasonable and plausible given what you know.

It would seem that in spite of our technological advances we have not yet grown out of the need to believe in God.