WHERE RATIONALITY HITS THE BRICK WALL

Let’s postulate that there is a God who created all that’s in the earth and all that’s in the heavens. Let’s endow Him with love, nobility, and goodness of a higher order than any man can achieve or even imagine. When He looks down upon this world, and sees that wars are being fought in His name, do you think he finds this good? If you imagine He will, then your God is not noble and good. It is shameful to take pleasure in causing smaller creatures to kill, torture and maim each other. Here in America, it’s against the law.

When war, crime, disease, unemployment or high prices are besetting you, if you are hated for the color of your skin or level of education or the size of your income, remember these evils are visited upon you not by God, but by Man. It is Man who sends the tanks to your town, not God. Why should He specially bless someone because he was killed while driving the tank? What about the fellow on the other side, who also believes himself to be a martyr? What if they run into each other in that special “martyr’s heaven?’ Conversation could be awkward. If you imagine God will reward people for blowing other people up, then it follows logically your God is not noble and good, even by the standards of secular law. If blowing people to pieces is really rewarded, do you really want to have anything to do with such a god?

If an all-powerful God made laws for his puny, finite creatures to follow, would he not make them unbreakable? Or at least consistent? Gravity, speed of light, attraction, repulsion, electromagnetism, these are more like laws of God. When we study the laws of nature, it’s as though we are tracing the outline of his hand. This is a worthy and awe-filled pursuit.

I cannot reconcile the belief in a good God with “visions” supported by a single person, when He who invented light, sound, and even visions, could surely allow us all to see it. And if He wanted our belief, he should. I cannot verify the sincerity or even the sanity of another person’s mind. I would not kill on the basis of someone else’s vision. Why does anyone?

You don’t have to be a scientist to see the flaws in this world’s religions. All you have to do is logic through it in your own way, at your own speed. Sometimes this may seem as impossible as following a scientist’s reasoning, hence this blog; to clarify. My own true charm (if I do say so myself) lies in the fact that I don't buy in to "truth by faith." And as you'll notice from previous posts, I believe science relies on truth by faith almost as much as religion does. So today's question is, why believe either one, and how do we decide WHAT to believe if not religion or science?

Due to a paucity of comments, I'm guessing everyone agrees totally with me!