August 23, 2005

  • New York Times today had an article "Scientists Speak Up on Mix of God
    and Science" which is always an interesting topic.  The world
    seems to be moving away from religion and leaning more towards
    science.  Even people who believe in religion today don't seem to
    take it very seriously.  People today aren't afraid of the church
    the way they used to be in lets say medieval times, where life revolved
    around the church.  Religion is one of those fascinating things
    that you kind of have to wait to die to find out the truth about. 
    (I'm speaking today primarily from a Christian point of view) 
    When you die you'll either go to heaven, or hell, or you won't. 
    That's the true test. I have many problems with religion.  One of
    them being if there is a God who wishes us to worship him why create
    all the doubt.  I lean towards the side of religion being a
    creation of humans to explain the world and hold society
    together.  With the advances in science today we no longer need
    religion to explain the way the world works but sadly for many of us we
    still need religion for moral values.  Whether or not there is a
    god doesn't really play into my dislike of religion.  There maybe
    there may not be.  I don't believe in heaven or hell as it was
    created by humans (in my opinion) to force people into
    "behaving".  I do believe that energy can not  be created or
    destroyed.  I also believe that people have a life force-- a form
    of energy and when humans "die"  our life force must move
    on.  Where it goes or what it moves on to is unknown to me, and
    probably all other humans alive today.