The “Religion” Effect
so here’s something i’ve been pondering lately:
how would life be different if someone proved or disproved the existence of God?
it’s not really a matter of whether life would be different, i believe it most certainly would… i think the real trick to the question is how would it??
now, i don’t belive there would be utter chaos in the world or anything… a belief is something that people hold onto more than anything, you would be hard-pressed to find people who would give up their (dis)belief in God whether you proved existence or not. on top of that, i think it would be refuted over and over.
if you think about it tho’, isn’t that what’s been going on all these years?? the constant argument and human struggle over the proof of God?
i believe the struggle for belief one way or the other is part of human nature… how can creatures who believe they can be rational (and more often than not, are irrational) hope to conquer such a feat as proving that a being, which is in and of itself without rationale, exists? i guess the meaning comes from the struggle, and maybe we were all meant to find our own types of meanings in each of our own struggles.
i think the other thing that really sparked this thought was the whole teaching “intelligent design” in schools thing… i know there’s an effort there to teach the world “scientifically”, and “intelligent design” may not fit the criteria of “scientific”, but are we forced to keep kids without perspective? it’s bad enough that the US is already low on the scale when it comes to math and science… i was always curious as a kid, and i still am now… maybe a presentation of perspective could help here. i’m not saying to teach it in a religious sense, but to present it as an argument as to how the world was created, and maybe we could spark some interest in some kid who may grow up loving science and solving one of the many problems we have in this world.
a final thought: do we live our lives differently because of our (dis)belief in God? how would our lives be different if we thought the opposite of what we thought now?
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-m