| Argument Against GOD'S Existence |
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Who am I? What Am I? Why am I? Are we real or imagination? Why and how the world was created? Why? Why? .... These are the questions that echo from the soul. The question that needs to be answered. And the question can be answered. Science does not know how is it possible to realize perfection the person's view of the value or lack of value is within reforms.
Science does not know what the origin of the universe nor how old the universe is, not what the ultimate fate of universe could be. Science does not know how we learn and remember, nor how we think and communicate, nor how the brain stores information nor the relationship of language and thought is. Science does not know the sacred knowledge about God neither knows about what happens when we die, does not know how is it possible to realize perfection. Science does not know about divine ethics and morality.
In the study of religion we would observe that usually if a child is born within a Hindu family he or she becomes Hindu. If his/her mother is Jewish he would be called Jewish, if he is born within an Islamic family he/she thinks that he is Moslem and if he is born in a Christian family usually he becomes a Christian.
The pursuit of liberty and happiness on occasion, have found itself hindered by the laws of religions. May be that is one of the reasons that many looks and papers have been written against religions as well as there are argues about God's existence.
It appears to me that-our confusion about the reality of God and our lack of understanding of God and mechanism of his actions have dragged us down to argue about the lower level of intelligence and less important phenomena that are called religions.
In summary I would like to conclude that God is a remedy for our problems but religions are not. In other words, religions are much less important for our growth compared to the role of God in them. As a matter of fact, religions have been the instruments of God to establish his Kingdom. In this paper I have tried to convey the message of why we should believe that God is real and He is the source of our positive thinking, positive emotions and the energy for the cause of our evolution.
In order to understand the messages in the paper, we have to approach them as if they are theories. Realization, validation, experiments and mathematics may come to place automatically within our mind not on the paper. The issue is sensitive and important. It is more than just an ideology. Sometimes reading and hearing the words or watching the pictures does n (convey the message. Understanding of the truth should be associated with proper feeling of thoughts. Enlightenment may occur if we put aside our negative emotions and skepticism.
The word "religion" does not always carry the same meaning. Some people use it to mean belief in God (or gods); by this meaning, a person who does not believe in God or gods has no religion. For others, religion means total commitment or total dedication to something, not necessarily God. In this sense, a person who is totally dedicated to some humanitarian project is said to be religious, and the cause to which he dedicates himself is "his religion." "That's his religion," one may say, of someone who devotes his life to Marxism or to the preservation of endangered species. A person's religion has even been defined as "whatever a person does with his leisure time." The variations on the use of the word are virtually endless. A person may have a religion in any one of these senses, but it only follows from the first sense that the person has a belief in God. (III; 287).
Even a person who believes in God is not necessarily said to be religious. A person may give a kind of pro forma assent to belief in God: If asked whether she believes in God she will say yes, but it occupies no part in her life, and she seldom or never thinks about it, or acts upon it. To be religious, as opposed to professing a religious belief, involves such matters as prayer, membership in a religious organization, thought and meditation about spiritual matters, dedication to a way of life, and emotional involvement in the religious ideal - though not necessarily all of these.
Many aspects of religion are of no concern to us as philosophers. We are not concerned here with the psychology of religious believers, or matters of ecclesiastical organization; we are concerned, as philosophy always is, with the justification of belief By what arguments, if any, can religious belief be defended or attacked? Moreover, we shall narrow this question to belief in God or gods, saying nothing about religions such as Buddhism, which have ethical beliefs but profess no belief in God, though Buddhism is almost always counted as a religion.
What kind of belief is belief in God? Belief in God is belief in a supernatural being, we might say. But what is meant by "supernatural being"? "Supernatural" means literally "above nature." But the word "above" cannot here be taken literally. The universe includes all space, so there is nothing literally above it. The believer in God holds that in addition to the material universe of planets and stars and galaxies, in addition to atoms and energy and the entities observed or hypothesized by the physical sciences, there is something else - a power (or powers) that created the laws of nature and can suspend these laws at will - though this power did not necessarily do all of these things. In ancient Greek religion the gods did not create the universe, but only gave it new form; and according to deism God does not sustain the material universe but only created it and thereafter let it run by itself like a piece of machinery. According to theism, on the other hand, God both created and sustains or guides the universe. Christianity, Mohammedanism, and Judaism are all theistic.) According to most religions, this power has human characteristics - is a personality with qualities such as benevolence, love, or vengeance. But there are also religions that believe in a supernatural power possessing virtually none of these human characteristics, other than the power to issue commands and punish those who disobey. In every case, however, there is believed to be something in reality other than the universe of matter and energy studied by physics and other sciences- perhaps a supernatural mind, a "cosmic consciousness" - but at any rate, a power that exists in addition to the universe perceived with the senses or investigated by science. A person who denies that any supernatural being exists is an atheist; one who withholds judgment either way is an agnostic. |
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