(May 2, 2014 at 6:00 pm)darthbarracuda Wrote: I guess a lot of this is that so many people believe in god, specifically YHWH. There's so much literature and philosophy surrounding it. Who am I, a teenage kid, to disregard everything that has been said about it?
When you try to understand human beings and their motivations, you'll see that we're not the rational beings we beleive ourselves to be, and relying on what others believe to inform your own belief is the worst thing you can do. As a whole, we're superstitious morons, so what "so many people believe" does not automatically need to be considered.
The fact is that the literature and philosphy surrounding Jesus aren't creating philosophical worldviews from the ground up. They are desperate attempts at justifying preconceived beliefs. When one truly examines the world around us and attempts to compile a working model from the ground up, Jesus is nowhere to be seen.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
