There is no God?

There are so many controversies regarding religion. It’s ridiculous. I have to agree with my bartender at work when he said that it’s all one God. I think most religions are the same, only dressed in different clothes. Its organized religion that is a sham. “Everyday people are leaving the church and going back to God.” I still find so much truth in that quote. It’s the differences in the practice of religion that has people, and even nations at war with each other. When the whole point of God’s message is love. The thing religion isn’t teaching, is religious tolerance. I can agree with being angry at religion over that.

What I don’t get is people who think they are so much smarter than others because they don’t believe that God exists. You aren’t smarter or more realistic. It’s all preferential. It’s like saying you are smarter or “in the right” because your favorite color is blue instead of yellow. I'm called to tell you what I believe, not to beat you with it and force you to believe it. You have to come willingly. If you want to believe in nothing more than yourself… ok. That’s fine as long as you aren’t hurting others in your pursuit. Although… I don’t really know what your pursuit would be. This isn’t something that non-believers usually talk about.

They seem to be more predisposed to criticizing people who do believe. I’d be really interested in learning what they live for. Especially those who don’t have any faith in people. Because if they aren’t even interested in trying to benefit humanity then it seems to me that they are living a doomed life and might as well kill themselves so they don’t have to prolong the misery by living.

I also don’t understand people who believe that people are rotten. Wouldn’t that mean that they, too, are rotten? I find that most people who say this are upset with how crappy they are being treated by people and don’t feel like they deserve it. So, they stop caring about humanity and just write people off as bad. But, do they realize that they are just doing the exact same thing to someone else who doesn’t deserve it? Yet, it’s the people who try to be nice and kind towards people, who are the ones who get criticized. I’ve been told that I am too nice to people who don’t deserve it. Well, who are we to pass judgment like that on others? What gives me the right to decide if you deserve kindness or not? “You have to be the change you want to see in the world.”

This is why I have to believe that there is a God. Because people are imperfect. Look at government systems or even how we follow religions. We can’t figure out how to create something that works in perfect harmony. We just keep screwing it up. Yet, look at the cosmos. They exist. They continue. Look at the human body. A machine that we can’t figure out or replicate yet it works harmoniously within. We did not create ourselves. Even the simplest of living things are thought out. More than we are able to understand. Could nature actually create something so complex that fits together so seamlessly?

I believe in evolution, but not in a way that denies the existence of God. If anything, it proves it more. It’s all part of a designed plan or change. It’s scientific law that things go from complex to simple, not the other way around. It’s natural that everything decomposes. Everything has this need to be in its most basic form. Compounds break down to basic elements, bodies decompose when they die. The only thing that keeps us from breaking down right now is this thing called “life”. It’s the state of being “alive”. We have not been able to create this. Something gave it to us. So for us to become what we have, something had to set it in motion and have a plan for us.

It’s too complicated and too perfect to just be by chance. I don’t think we are in charge of this life because we are incapable of the wisdom it takes. We can’t even figure out how to benefit each other within our own country. We can barely run a country. The human body is still in many ways a mystery even though we all have one. We are too complex to have made ourselves and, therefore, cannot simply depend on ourselves. We are just pawns in a greater scheme.

We have a purpose, but we haven’t figured it out yet and probably won’t until we can see the bigger picture. Humans don’t know how to sustain life. We destroy it. We destroy each other. If we were all to believe that there is no God, I think we lose site of how we fit into the design. Because I don’t believe that the story ends with us. Humans aren’t forever. Something will destroy us. Cancer, over population, global warming… it’s inevitable. We are just a vehicle to create a change in this universe.
It’s too perfect. This life is not for us. We are set to a task by someone, yet are unaware of what we are doing. It’s the perfect CIA situation. I find that to be a rather clever way for God to work. No one to spoil the ending. But that’s just me. You can believe what you want. You have that right… and my respect.

CLOSING THOUGHT: I ran a little over 6 miles tonight. I felt like I could have kept running for another mile or two, but it was 10pm and I have to work in the morning.