I'm taking the more psychological path on this....
How do you believe in anything? How do you know the air you breathe is the reason you stay alive instead of the reason you're slowly dying? How do you know that beyond the Milky Way, mankind on Earth is the only living thing to exist? The particle theory? The Big Bang? The answer is you don't. No matter how much scientific proof you can come up with, there will always be a small part that goes against everything. Humans are incapable of drawing those conclusions. No matter how complex our internal and external functions are the human mind simply does not possess the knowledge nor capacity to understand those concepts. So we rely on religion to tell us. The guidelines, dating back to before anyone could ever remember. Ideologies that formed in the Stone Age and only improved with the modern age.. they are what form the foundation of religion.
So what I'm trying to say is that religion in itself is the answer to the things humans are incapable of figuring out themselves. And they're not new ideas that force you to do anything, EVERY religion is based on the foundation of generosity and purity. Every rule, guideline and saying has a purpose and meaning behind it. We don't follow them because of fear of the unknown, we follow them because they make us better humans. To find inner and outer peace. Science proves to be just as unpredictable and in-dependable as humans. . So Maybe religion is the answer, I mean we'll never fully know.
Wow, two blogs in a row... What's happening? I understand what you mean, the human brain is so complex, it can't even fully understand itself, so it relies on an unnatural force that can inexplicably explain everything. Humans need answers, religion is a way of getting them. Once we found out that the sun is a star, and not a person, the ancient greeks religion seemed farfetched, but that was their way of explaining the inexplicable, just how current day religion is to us. Have a fear of death? No worries! theirs always heaven to go to! Religion is just a way to explain, that's it.
ReplyDeleteReligion means something different for everyone, some are religious out of fear, some are religious just to feel pure and attached to something. Sometimes I wish I would have been born more into the future to see if maybe there will be answers. As for now we just have to live a life full of unanswered questions...
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