Thursday September 02, 2010

Last night, I had talked with a couple acquaintances of mine about what the world would be like sans religion. What I have to say on it to conclude the conversation is this, that religion to me may be necessary for the cultivation of civilization, but it is also made up from lies in order to make people feel better. It has also helped us to answer some early questions we've once had, however, those questions have been later debunked and thoroughly answered with the progress of science.

Religion is now more of a mental subject, now scientists are beginning to believe that we can 'see' God. What we may be able to see is just some early ancestors that are drawn to our physical beings and not God. The idea of there being some sort of creator just does not appeal to me at all. I like to believe my own theories about the world and I also get some of my ideas from science as well.

As a philosopher-hopeful, I see the world a little differently than I had at the beginning of my last school year. One way I see the world as is some sort of never-ending equation. This equation is Man's ever-lasting questions of life, reality, and everything in the universe, as well as themselves. Religion is sadly enough to me, a big part of that equation and for some, religion solves most of the puzzling equation of life itself. However, I believe-not with an atheist's point of view, but with my own undeniable belief and perspective-that if we were to take religion out of the equation and suppose it never existed, ever, than we might have a drastically different world. World peace would have been achieved and we would've only had one global war, this day and age would be an age of prosperity in science and technology, 9/11 never would've happened, and the homosexual community would be free to coincide with the rest of the global community.

Sadly, these ideas that seem so great and so wonderful, can never be achieved. Religion will continue to be Man's shepherd as well as Man's blockade. Religion has such a hold on us, that it may continue to distort our mentalities and that world peace will never be achieved because of religion differences.

Later,

Yours Truly