As was written by the Incompetent Scribe, verily:
I’m just going to say it: God exists. And while I’m at it, Jehovah exists as well, along with Allah and Buddha. All of these gods exist, for these are all names for the same concept – the illuminator of the unknown; what the dead are thinking, what the right answers or what the meaning of this whole life thing is – the universal question mark of Life. Societies have anthropomorphized their ideal men and women throughout history into father figures, guardians and idols. During times of hardship, insight was gained by wondering what that God might advise, were he there. Often, the answer was remarkably revealed to them, when in actual fact it was merely their own subconscious which provided the answer to the edges of awareness. That this phenomena has been shown to yield results in scientific studies should be all the proof you need that there is a God.
Consider also, the feeling of isolation, of the loneliness that creeps into our lives from time-to-time. When it is impossible to be truly understood, what great comfort an imaginary friend may be. The fact that these imaginary characters are beloved by millions only adds to the reality of the delusion. That another being could feel your unique pain and support you when no-one else did so, well isn’t that the best kind of friend to have?
Finally, when the purpose of Life seems to be a mystery and it’s hard to know who you are, let alone what place you might take in the world, what better role model to have than the perfect man? When all your friends are losers and your father was a drunk, to know you still had a man like Jesus to look up to was like the North Star in an otherwise black sky.
Who could argue that they don’t exist? They exist like Leprechauns exist – in our minds.
Ideas can change the world. The spread of ideas from mind to mind controls the direction of us as a species. That is why we care about religion so much, why it whips a crowd into a frenzy faster than you can say six Hail Marys.
Religion fulfills a human need. It comforts us in times of need, provides solace that death is not the end and that we will survive for all Eternity, surrounded by all that is good. It even provides a mechanism whereby we may access our own subconscious to deal with the problems that we have before we get to Heaven. This meme has been around for centuries. It may be a virus or a naturally evolved system for dealing with consciousness. For God knows what a burden self-determination can be sometimes.
To answer all the questions that we can only barely just ask with our current level of development, we need a God. In a thousand years, and another million after that, we still won’t know what it was all for, just wait and see. And even if we have answered every question there is as a people, not every human knows all there is to know, nor can find it and therefore Gods will crop up from time-to-time to offer some mental encouragement.
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The laws by which energy behaves defines how our world and everything in it exists. The bouncing of the molecules, the rise and fall of the tides, the neurons firing in our brains with every thought we have, all trace their evolution back to an earlier, simpler form of energy. Energy runs like chocolate through the mold of the universe, resulting in the Easter egg we call Life.
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