2011년 4월 26일 화요일

God exists, not Religion.

     Before I start, I want to define "god" in my way. Thanks to all the religion in the world, most people now and before think that god is a mighty individual or mighty individuals who created the world and has been ruling everything. Christians believe that "he" is a good-looking, charismatic middle-aged man with European appearance. Hindus, ancient Egyptians, and many others believe gods look like a combination of human and animal. Still almost all the religions say their gods exist in firm shape. I believe god is something different. God is something that we can deduce from asking "Why?" At any question of phenomenon, if we keep asking "Why?" we will eventually reach to the very question that how the universe began to exist. There is a theory called the Big Bang, but we still can not even guess what caused the Big Bang. I believe when we finally reached the very question what was the cause of the beginning, it would be the perfect time to believe in god. God is not someone nor something. God is that which had ignited the entire world, and therefore, god is the most fundamental answer for everything in the world.

-Uhh, so Mr.God is European? Asians don't have any chance?


     Wo, that was a long first paragraph, but I think I explained enough about that "god exists." Religion, on the other hand, is the very primitive way of worshiping the god. Presumably the founder of religions might concluded that god is someone who just looks like themselves -with some variations- , because human has been the only intelligent species that can be observed on the earth. For example, the Bible says that the god created the first man, Adam, to resemble himself. For those who believe in religion, god is something like a king, the most powerful authority in the bureaucracy of the earth. This kind of presumption is acceptable, but it can never be the final conclusion human being is trying to reach; religion is a part of trials and errors of human species. Now with all the development of technology, we can see that all the religions bare a same lethal error: inconsistency in themselves. Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, and all the other religion assert that their god is one which is the only valid one, and all of them use same logic of the presumption of bureaucratic god resembling human. All of them refute each other, and there is none which is special or which adopts different logics. Thus, the only possible conclusion is that none of them is valid. God exists, but no religion is true, and no god lives in religion.

-A Lecture of Richard Dawkins
He doesn't believe in any god, and I disagree with that point. Still I firmly agree with what he says in this video clip.

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  1. Your views are kind of similar to mine. I think it's wrong and very narcissistic to assign human qualities to whatever is up there or out there. Considering how infinite the universe is, we have to accept that we are merely a speck of dusk on a cosmic windowsill. That said, I do understand "why" religions evolved to be the way they are, and up until a hundred or so years ago (maybe even 40) we could sort of forgive religions for a lot of the problems they've caused. But what about now? If we could rewrite the bible a second time, why not a third time where we do away with floods, plagues, and water being turned into wine? Why do humans need church as an excuse to get together and do something good once a week? On that point, let's admit that religions do fulfill some good, and do give a lot of people comfort, and not always in an "opium of the masses" sort of way.

    I really like Dawkins, and your "lethal error" point is very well crafted. Good stuff.

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  2. BTW - when you suggest motions, try to use THB, THS, THW etc., as they do help. You didn't do that on the midterm either, so get in the habit.

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  3. Oh, I always forget writing motions...

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