Hey! Welcome to my blog.
Now that the introduction is done lets get down to a topic that has haunted me since childhood.Does god exist?
People in school will remember as an atheist,practicing a rather militant form of it, and people in college would consider me a staunch theist!And now, though not too many people know it, I am back to being an atheist,but unlike my childhood self,I hope that god exists. So I guess I will have quite a bit to talk about god's existence.
At the very onset I find the battle between the atheists and theists extremely skewed.On one side you have the oxford-harvard educated grads who make there make their case vociferously and convincingly and on the other side you have sparsely educated godmen(!) who think they can get people to believe in god by telling them that they need to have "faith",somehow anyhow. Despite this a large number of people are theists maybe because they like the notion that there is a meaning to there lives or they find comfort in not being entirely responsible for things that happen to them .So there faith is more about a convenient concoction as opposed to a rational conviction.This leads to a very precarious situation.On side you have a convincing argument and on the other you have an unintelligent but a convenient one!The god men are fine with it as long as they have a following and they can hold on to it,even at the cost of intellectual defeat at the hands of the atheists.How else can you explain there low blows while taking questions about transubstantiation or the geocentric system.
Honestly I dont have anything against religion or the god men,I just believe that for a person driven by reason and curiosity atheism is the only conforming option.Almost all religions have faith as a corner stone which can merely be a euphemism for "believe all that i tell you(even if it's nonsense)".I hope there will be a day when religion guided by intellectuals will be compatible with skepticism!
