Friday, April 16, 2010

16.Another crack on free will vs destiny.

1)We do not know what God is and we only get to know him and his characters based on the laws he provides for us in his books.

2)We therefore fear him and are force to love him, and take all the bad that happens to us as good, as God is given this to us, and surely God is not unjust and unholy, he is surely a good God and therefore this bad we feel is not really a bad thing, why, because we know from our religion God is not a Mafia leader and in fact he is just and merciful!

3) Problem still remains we can never know whether all this events which happen to us are really God given. and to begin with This problems are more aimed towards the believers than non-believers.

3)Therefore whenever a believers sees cases like an innocent infant getting terminal illness, which statically speaking to a non-believer are quiet normal, we just ignore those cases and give it a benefit of doubt as God is great and just, and surely in that child suffering and death something great will lays (whatever that great is, that is also another question mark). The other option is to blame the childs family and close friend for its suffering as it is due to their crime the infant is suffering! The infant suffers to punish a crime committed by people who are close to him. This is surely speaks many justice.

4) Human life is all about experience. Whether that experience is a mental one, based on one’s thought experiments or one that one actually physical experiences, like a car accident, there is not magic behind it. Issues like free will (we doing something stupid and therefore suffer as a result) and destiny (where what happens to us is not what we aimed for, but it still happened to us due to some divine intervention) are cases only good for the story books and philosophy alone. Since one can never identify between what actions are due to our free will and what is due to divine intervention it is pointless to even speak about it. Surely I can blame all my bad deeds and sins to the destiny God has given me long before I was born, but I am sure in court of law claiming my actions to be a act due to Gods will shall not not get me far at all! After all God did give me freewill! Yet it was my free will to commit a sin (Or was it my destiny to commit a sin!? Do you see the inconsistency?)

5) Religion is just another way one can live its life, and we know by now it is not the only way. As times passes by and society grows intellectually (hopefully that is) it only becomes harder to be able to say it is what it is and take it as how it is and also consider it as a fact, as people would want better explanation and less vague statements. For the same reason when you go to the sales men and ask "how much is that tv?", and he replies “I think it is somewhere from 1 dollars to infinity, would you like to buy some?", you would not be too happy as you have a finite budget, you would not want to risk following something that you only know some part of it, and most luckily if you knew what it is all about you wouldn't sign the sales contract! It amazes me how believers easily gamble their souls, assuming there is a soul!
Surely religion is meant to be for all not for only few who truly get its meaning. To me a faith that requires scholars in order to be able to be fully understood is not a faith for all, but only for the few. A truly God given religion should be something universal, something that all mans in all level of intelligent should suppose to understand. Anything that requires a scholar to explain its theory can only mean one thing, there might some chances that it is not fact but a made up theory and hence person ‘A’ in a need for some scholar to defend and clarify the theory, much like most science which requires courses after courses for one to be able to understand it!

6) There are very few facts in life like if an apple falls within the enclosure of the earth atmosphere it will fall downward, however I and I am not confident I can ever be able to call religion as one.

7) Let’s not forget the problem of existence of God still remains unanswered.

1 comment:

  1. to have faith, is to abandon the search - which is the darkest day of one's life!

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