I recently spent the day attending a massive concert based event, called The Warped Tour. The day was pretty normal for the event, but the thing that stuck in my head-and caused me to write this article-was a little insert by a vocalist between songs. He suggested we should constantly "...Search for god in our lives." According to him, we can and will find our own personal connection to god if we search long enough. I believe this idea is a pleasant fiction, as is religion itself.
It is easy to wish for something. The idea of having a greater being that is always smiling down on you, will always forgive you, and has given your life a meaningful purpose is great. Also, the thought that after you die in this life you will go on for eternity in total bliss is appealing to most. Those are great reasons to want to believe in a god, and religions give you a structured belief system to make all that wishing easier.
Problem? I'd say having to search for a connection to god is one if them. Besides blind faith in something drilled into your mind by both a church and your parents from the time you were born, or in a book written thousands of years ago (which i could go on about but that is for another post); you have to search your life for something that you do not wish to rationally explain via science to connect to god. Some may bring up "miracles," but that is large enough for another post as well.
Why do we have to search for god? Why doesn't he show himself, or make evident his existence? We are to believe he exists, based on hopes and dreams rather than actual evidence. What is the point of hiding his identity? Is this great being too shy, or too pompous to show himself to us? Why do people believe that god has given our life meaning beyond our comprehension? Why do we not accept the fact that when we die, it is over? Why must we create something to look forward to after death in order to be happy today in life?
In reality, any connection you may make with your god is a fallacy. You wish to believe there is a solid connection to your god so you have a greater meaning to your life. You want to find that connection so badly, that you are blinded to the truth and create the connection in your own fantasy.
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I think you bit into a large topic here. What you said was fine - I agree with you. But to expand upon it we're going to need many entries.... Which may be a good thing because we'll know what to write about.
--Also it makes living people feel better to imagine their deceased love ones are now happily in heaven. No one ever examines the possibility of their loved ones being in hell - which is a far more likely scenario given the demands set down to get into heaven.
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