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Oct. 19, 2004 Call it a gene, a chemical composition of the brain, or whatever, but the idea of a god and spirituality is simply the result of primitive thinking; in fact, it lacks of thinking at all. People postulate a god to appease their hearts and minds: they find the world a harsh place and so look for something to hold on to, in this case: an exalted father figure to love them in this apathetic world. They also think that the universe must have been created – they cannot accept that Nature is a self-sustaining eternity of Being, without the need of a beginning, middle or an end. They also fear mortality and cannot accept that this is it – no afterlife. These people also feel the need to find a higher purpose in life and thus create this god to define the purpose of life, while they fail to realize that there is no purpose in that – what is the meaning or purpose of a god as such? And then there is the problem of “justice”: these people experience the world as an unjust place and so they have faith and they “know” that in the end their god will give the final judgment over all “sinners”. Don’t they realize that it was this “god” after all who created all the chaos in the world, but no, they blame that on the sins of people – well, if god knows every person even before he creates them, and if god knows exactly what a specific person is going to do with his life – why go ahead and create such people anyway? People of faith are simply weak, as they don’t have the capacity to create their own moral values and to find their own purpose in life. They are intellectually challenged and cannot think for themselves – they need someone else (god) to think for them. They are like people who need a leader to tell them what to do and what to think. Well, I suppose one cannot really expect the primitive mind (?) to think clearly about life. ------------ About the author Werner Reyneke: I am a 23 year old passionate writer/poet in my spare time and a computer programmer by proffession. Visit my website to see my first published book. I live in South Africa and have been published in a local newspaper (some poems in Haiku form) for the first time in February 2000. I have also been selected for publication in a VoicesNet Anthology (visit www.Voicesnet.org) and a Poetry.com (ILP Publishers) anthology called "Eternal Portraits"). Visit my website at: http://myweb.absa.co.za/wreyneke/Mybook.htm Email: wreyneke@absamail.co.za Tell a friend about this site! ------------ |
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