Saturday, November 12, 2005

I am really oscillating between belief and disbelief. The image of god the way which is explained in Abrahamic religions has some contradictions in it. He is all powerful and able to do anything and he is fair. At the same time under his command the most unfair things are happening. There are two possibilities for me, the first one is that God is not fair, or fairness should be redefined.
If I am capable of preventing innocent people from suffering , but I don't then I am not fair, at least in human standards.

Thursday, November 10, 2005

I don't believe in the good nature of the human being. I think we are animals, like many other animals that if not instructed will operate exclusively under the influence of our instincts. The difference, I mean the big difference is in our intelligence.
Look at the small kids and toddlers, how selfish and cruel they are (with smaller ones or weaker) and if there is no do and don't from the parent they won't realize the good from the bad (the human values ) by themselves. Conclusion: the human values and what we know as humanity is the product of the human mind and intelligence, a system of values is a must for social life, otherwise we never could come to have a collective life in a big society.

Wednesday, November 09, 2005

I am reaching to a painful and disturbing conclusion concerning God and religion. There is no solid proof (the kind of proof we like and we are used to in science and our everyday life) for the existence of God. I have rased and told as if such thing exists and that God as defined in Abrahamic religions is such an obvious concept. No doubt, there are signs of him being there but they are signs mostly backed up by our biased common sense.
I would not even listen to anybody who claims to offer any solid proof about existence of God.
Does it really matter? Isn't that the same thing as Molavi said: the people of reason (philosophers and scientists) got wooden feet?
Believing in God and rest of it is a very personal matter (I don't like widely encouraged concept of collective activities in religion which avoids the "wandering about" and "Doubt") , a matter of heart and not reason.
In that case what religeons are all about?