Kuna kitu iliniguza juzi. I almost fell out with someone because of what we believed in. Looking back, it’s stupid and I hope you’ll also see why in a minute.
I have as much respect to people who believe in a higher supreme identity as much as I respect those who don’t believe in any. By all means, we weren’t born together, go ahead with what tickles your fancy. However, the one thing that irks me is someone who tries to shove their ideas down your throat. “You believe there’s a God? haha lmao you sad piece of sh. Nyinyi ni tar car tar car tu.” or “You’re an atheist. Repent your sins and also those of your neighbour’s mother’s curse or you’ll burn for a really long time in some place.”
:(If you try to reason out with any of these it always boils down to:
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[li]Prove that God exists with tangible scientific concepts.[/li][li]Explain why everything is so perfect if not God?[/li][/ol]
True?
This is something that will go on for a really long time and here’s why…
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[li]Religion was meant to answer some of the mistifying observations of our universe such as, mbona kulinyesha? tukikufa tutaenda wapi? who oversees our life? Religion does it’s best to answer this by invoking divinity. Kulinyesha juuMungu anakupenda, tukikufa tutaenda different venues as per our deeds and God. These are things that can only exist within the parameters of organised religion and with it, is the concept of a God.[/li][li]Atheism is the belief that there are no deities and thus God/gods do not exist in this line of thought. Most of the answers to life’s questions are often based on deep rational thinking and most notably it spills over to my next interest:[/li][li]Science. Most,if not all, of the atheist turn to scientific facts to seek guidance on grey areas. Here, people only believe in what is already proven by agreed standards na hakuna mtu atakwamilia wild speculations.[/li][/ul]
Soooooo, what’s the point?
My point is that it’s completely pointless trying to prove God using science. It’s a concept that only exists in organised religion and a huge number of arguments can be avoided if we only accepted this.
The fact that religion puts waaaaaay too much emphasis on us being so special is what’s hurting our planet. :D:DTrust me, I won’t start some environmental shit but think about it. If we were to scale down the time period from since the universe to now to the size of one year(365 days), the entire history of man would have taken place in one day and even a few hours for the existance of our species. The estimated number of suns in the universe is 600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Some are bigger than our own solar system and small are so tiny and measly. But if we’re to turn to our very own sun, we can fit 1.3 million earths to fill it up. That should give you some perspective on how puny we are.
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This is a Voyager pic of the Earth, 6.4 billion kilometres away (still in the S. System). To really feel the significance of this pic I’ll leave a quote by a legend…
[SPOILER=“A Pale Blue Dot”]Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there–on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.
– Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994[/SPOILER]
Haiya, now go forth and engage wisely with matters religion & philosophy.