RE: Who's God again?
September 18, 2012 at 12:22 pm
(This post was last modified: September 18, 2012 at 12:26 pm by FallentoReason.)
Wow... Every bit about this is like me, except the revelation at school and my dad being more religious than my mum. The rest is word-for-word my story.
Lately, though, I've come to realise maybe the question of 'do you believe in god' should be met with a blank stare. Imagine a new religion where the Almighty Toaster is worshipped. Then in 2000 years' time you have 2.2 billion people in the world obsessed with the concept. 'Do you pledge allegiance with the Almighty Toaster'? "I'm agnostic towards the claims made about the Almighty Toaster". This religion and its claims would be trivial, much like this concept of GOD that has been put on a pedestal by humanity which obsesses over it.
Why the need to necessarily have to describe oneself in relation to this concept (i.e. theist, atheist, agnostic) if it's something long dead and only applicable in an era where godidit was a sensible explanation to the world?
Lately, though, I've come to realise maybe the question of 'do you believe in god' should be met with a blank stare. Imagine a new religion where the Almighty Toaster is worshipped. Then in 2000 years' time you have 2.2 billion people in the world obsessed with the concept. 'Do you pledge allegiance with the Almighty Toaster'? "I'm agnostic towards the claims made about the Almighty Toaster". This religion and its claims would be trivial, much like this concept of GOD that has been put on a pedestal by humanity which obsesses over it.
Why the need to necessarily have to describe oneself in relation to this concept (i.e. theist, atheist, agnostic) if it's something long dead and only applicable in an era where godidit was a sensible explanation to the world?
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
