Today was a day of inadequate economo-political stimulus, for no stories of interest have caught the attention of Mr Eagle Eye! Yet, I shall not let that stop me from uttering forth words from my beak that you can read by using your eyes for I shall drag an oft-ignored topic upon the grand stage of Eagle Eye This! for all to see! For unlike the British Government, Mr Eagle Eye recognises that not everything needs stimulus in order to raise up. Hitherto, my ceaseless introduction shall cease henceforth, for Mr Eagle Eye will discuss, the matter of Organized Religion!At the heart of the great majority of organized religions is the belief that a God or Gods created the universe. In the midst of the vicious battle between the forces of Creation and the forces of pure Science, Mr Eagle Eye throws in his two feathers:
- The matter and energy of the Universe, since it's creation, can be wholly explained through science. Therefore, there has been no Godly intervention since the creation of the Universe.
- The matter remains that it is uncertain what existed before the creation of the Universe. If a God (or 'Gods', can't forget the Polytheistic religions!) created the Universe, then it is possible that the act of doing so may have rendered the Godly fellow(s) incapable of interacting with it. Dead, maybe?
- But wait, aren't Gods meant to be all powerful?
- However, just because there has not been any Godly intervention since the creation of the Universe does not neccessarily mean that God(s) do not exist; could just be a real long nap, or just sitting back and watching it all kick off for the past few billion years.
Therefore, it is not God's fault (he/she/it whatever is merely the bait), but the fault of organized religion that faith has led to a great deal of idiocy, suffering and death, a social-control tool to manipulate the masses for benefit of the puppeteer. Mr Eagle Eye now soars in the skies of liberal conviction, to brand organized religion with the smear-mark of the damned; Socialists!
Your argument is based on the assumption that agents within a system (in this case, us) can contemplate something outside the system (in that case, God). Hamsters can interact with the running wheel in their cage, but they don't know what's going on in the house next door.
ReplyDeleteWhat makes you think that we would be any different?