Mar 22, 2011

How does the thought of a Creator fit into our highly-technologised society?

After growing up in a Protestant home but having never believed in a God as he is characterized in the Bible, I keep catching myself doubting whether we need a "God" in a modern society. Surely, a thousand years ago, people needed Religion, for it provided social legislation and moral values. Of Course, nowadays we need those things too, but i dont think that raging atheists will start burning people as soon as we stop going to church. We have Statute Books and Constitutions to make sure that people behave the right way today. But, without religion, some questions are left, such as: Who or what created us? Is there life after death? Is there an Intention in our existance?

Personally, I'm not sure about this matter. I do not know whether there is a Creator or not. In the Case that there is one, I doubt that we could ever understand it, or that "it" would be the same God we know from the Bible; it propably doesn't even care about us. If there is no Creator, we are a bunch of unimportant mammals floating on a rock through space, unlikely to ever do or find something really crucial.
On the subject of Life after Death, there are a lot of reports of people who have nearly died and all had Visions of heaven-like Creatures and total happiness. Again, I do not know whether they really were on the step to a new form of existance, or if it just was a backlash by the Brain, trying to ease itself from the total certainty of Death.
So... do we have a Purpose in this world?

I think we do. And I also think that it has nothing to do with our Creator or where we come from. And that is the message i want to get across: Before we start blowing our own Horn about how awesome we are or start wondering about unimportant stuff like what happens after death, maybe we should think about what happens before that; we should finally change something about us. There is no difference between us and the people 2000 years ago: We still hate each other because of our skin's colour, People still kill each other, steal, rape and wage war.
So if you need a rolemodel like a "loving, almighty God that always watches you" to do that, then go and pray, but don't try to shove it down other People's throats.
Everyone should have his own choice whether he wants to believe, and in what, or not.

32 comments:

  1. There is no way to tell if there are gods or a god and if no way to tell if they have any influence in our lives. This is why free religion is so important.

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  2. Personally I'm an Atheist myself.. all good though! lol, followed you, hit me back, follow!

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  3. youtube hitchens, pretty good stuff

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  4. agnosticism is the best life way imo

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  5. On a side note, the pictures are awesome.

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  6. Agnostic here. I think it's the only logical view really, as there is no way to prove or disprove the existance of any God

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  7. You shared some awesome thoughts, you seem pretty open minded which can be rare now a days :)

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  8. Another agnostic here, cool post too, will follow and check around daily ;)

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  9. good job, nice post

    + follower:)

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  10. agnostic reporting in, not sure what to think, and as Cynbad said, it's kind of rare to find open minded persons nowadays.

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  11. It's a tough balance to strike between science and religion. I constantly find myself swaying between the two. I just can't get beyond my religious upbringing, so I flat out refuse to say there isn't a God.

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  12. Its all a matter of personal belief and respecting other peoples' rights to have their own personal beliefs that are different from yours. Basically dont be a dick. Followed!

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  13. I don't really think it fits in at all with our modern society, but I guess the only thing we can do is respect others beliefs =\.

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  14. We have no purpose, we're a big walkign chemical equilibrium wanting to propagate. thats it

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  15. Nice stuff I feel very much the same way. Followed.

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  16. I personally don't believe in higher powers. Being forced to go to church all my childhood I learned about it and the older I became the more I thought it was a load of shit. Although who is to say something similar hadn't happened. nice post :)

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  17. Yeah I dno't believe in God myself. I'm too much of a logical person. Followed! alphabetalife.blogspot.com

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  18. I'm atheist, however i am interested in new ideas... one day i may find one i fully believe in

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  19. I do believe in god, maybe not to the extent of others though. Nice post

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  20. Nihilist here. I'm down with the whole "mammals on a rock" thing. Call me short sighted if you like. That doesn't mean I don't think we can't improve the world or do good, I just don't believe in some "Cosmic Plan"

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  21. There is too many scientific facts against the chance that there can be a god...+

    Check out my new text :)

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  22. as an atheïst myself, I believe in live, and let live, let other people believe if they want to...

    On a different note, you can separate your tags by using a comma, because now you have one huge tag under your post...

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  23. god doesn't watch my back i dont think. +1 follow

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  24. Interesting :p also followd!

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  25. Im an atheist and I don't think I will ever believe in a higher power.

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  26. Nice though provoking points! I'll start following.

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