What is religion? What is faith? What is the meaning of life and is there something else to existence than just living?
I don't know!
I grew up in a very religious home. But now that I'm almost 28 years old, I realize that I've been questioning a lot of things about my faith, and faith in general. I started looking at every aspect of faith and tried to rationalize and and logically make sense of everything. I am not an atheist or even agnostic at this point in my life, we'll get to that in a moment. What I'm trying to do is separate myself from everything and find out what makes sense, and build up from there.
The one thing that I cannot separate from myself is the fact that there is some divine particle in the cosmos. This divine particle is organized. When I go out to the woods, when I see nature, everything comes together, everything makes sense. For me, our existence as self-conscious beings is evidence that something created us. I believe that the evidence points towards that fact. Those who argue that things happened randomly and life just happened to spring from the primeval goo of the Earth would believe that elements randomly hit into each other, organized, and then thought was eventually produced.
This is too much akin to the idea that I had an infinitely large billiards table, with as many billiards balls. I cannot believe that if these billiards balls were hit around the table in complete chaos that they would eventually organize and turn into a living organism. I believe that somehow, the elements of the universe were combined and the "breath of life" given to them, give the rise of life.
Now, I don't know where this path leads, but sometimes we have to see the trees to get an idea of the forest.
The one thing that I cannot separate from myself is the fact that there is some divine particle in the cosmos. This divine particle is organized. When I go out to the woods, when I see nature, everything comes together, everything makes sense. For me, our existence as self-conscious beings is evidence that something created us. I believe that the evidence points towards that fact. Those who argue that things happened randomly and life just happened to spring from the primeval goo of the Earth would believe that elements randomly hit into each other, organized, and then thought was eventually produced.
This is too much akin to the idea that I had an infinitely large billiards table, with as many billiards balls. I cannot believe that if these billiards balls were hit around the table in complete chaos that they would eventually organize and turn into a living organism. I believe that somehow, the elements of the universe were combined and the "breath of life" given to them, give the rise of life.
Now, I don't know where this path leads, but sometimes we have to see the trees to get an idea of the forest.
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