Re: Sorry, but I slightly changed and thus tried to generalize your statement above.
No need to apologize. :) Opinions about gods are like noses, everyone has got one.
I tend to be a real harsh "Show Me" state sort of S.O.B. on the god issue. After 12 1/2 years of Catholic brainwashing and indoctrination, I finally had the balls to ask myself (though not the Jesuits at Loyola) just why in the hell anyone believes in a god. And I could find dozens of answers. Social connections, herd membership, sheeple behavior, career advancement, something to do on Sunday, mystical satisfactions, girls, acceptance within a group of peers, etc.
But there was one thing that I found extremely vexing. I could find absolutely no proof of the existence of this thing called a god, and every time I learned more about the history of science vis a vis the history of superstition, it became more and more obvious that a god represented a crutch for dimwitted and ignorant people who couldn't explain the natural world. In other words, as man advanced and gained knowledge of the world around him, the excuses for a "belief" in a god fell by the wayside.
There has been nothing in the past 35 years of my existence to dissuade me from thinking this is the most satisfactory answer to the god concept. And man, do I miss those Catholic girls. They're so easy. |
