This may belong in the creative writing forum, but it relates to the ideal character a religion AND any other group for that matter, considers perfect adaptability to its given circumstances, its shared perceptions of reality, the(ir) world, and how to act in it.
I’m not religious, but I’m the type of person who tries to accommodate ideas, to allow one group to understand the basic grounding of another’s motivations, how they see the situation.
It’s very hard for religious people to express the core of their worldview to those that don’t see the religion’s hero(s) as a credible source.
It acts as the cover sleeve,
from which one decides whether its fiction or nonfiction, and which they would prefer to read.
Athiests believe religious people have invested time and money to buy the same book–at the same bookstore, in the same isle, with the same cover slip–that they had only picked up for a moment (before deciding it wouldn’t bring any knowledge to help them) before deciding it was crap, and can actually believe that story is real.
They must KNOW, it’s crap… right? Many athiests think that religious people KNOW they are just accepting something, even though they don’t REALLY buy into it.
They are having faith… because they are afraid of what could happen if they didnt.
And the athiests wouldn’t mind this so much if the religious weren’t destructive (or counterproductive), but isn’t this how everyone feels?
We are all judging books by their cover sleeves and few people actually begin carrying books around as they eagerly search for others.
And few make a habit of carrying too many books with them, as they weigh the person down.
But those that force themselves through unrelenting will to know they are acting ethically will eventually read far enough through the books to realize they are all the same story
written in a different language.
The book explains the world we live in.
Athiests focused on doubt that we understand the world we live in, which is a very positive outlook.
The scientific provides proof which truly expresses a perception of reality shared by all of us (part of the objective world).
The conflict between science and religion is due to their perception of the objective world.
I interpret the christian God as everything in the universe.
There is the world we know, that we live in, and then there’s possiblity.
What we know, and any conceived possibility, is God.
God acts a certain way, he has a certain temperament, portrayed by the laws of the Universe.
But WHY?
Facts don’t mean anything without the connection between what they stand for.
Which roads to take, where to turn.
Facts alone don’t TELL you how to organize it, how to interpret it, they are just there as tools on how to live.
(As the mind is man’s greatest challenge, it brings survival’s greatest asset–language).
Will we use it to not only find a way to put our minds together to have a comfortable present moment for all of us, but to also cooperate in the effort to secure the best living on earth as a whole?
Or.
Will we prove our faith in our group’s ideal, our hands bloody from our end of the tug-o-war rope, giving it all to win the favor of our in-group’s God
until we finally win the competition by wiping out the other side’s whole team?
The scientific method doesn’t explain how to use the data, it just gathers the facts.
If something cannot be scrutinized by the scientific method, then in the world of science, it doesn’t exist. It’s irrelevant.
Taking into account the entire span of human evolution, we have only recently acquired the scientific method, and the birth rate of new technologies is expanding exponentially.
We need to take into account that reality has been quite similar for humans, because we all possess the mind. The delayed reaction. The thought, then the response.
We have a picture of the world, a picture of how the world should be (including their place in the world), and a picture of the world we don’t want.
The curse of humans is the never-ending perception of conflict,
as we cannot agree on an ideal for us to try to live up to.
The teachings of religious heroes needn’t be associated with the teachers.
Not reading a book, but merely acting like you know it, having temendous faith in what you read on the cover sleeve, is an error both the religious and atheist make.
A WORLD OF CRACKS
THAT MEN RACE TO UPON SITE
TO IMMEDIATELY GRAB THE MOST COMFORTABLE PLACE TO LEAN THEIR FOREHEADS AGAINST
MEMORIZING EVERY DETAIL
AND TALKING TO THE CELLMATES NEXT TO THEM
AS IF THEY’RE STUCK AGANST THE SAME CRACK.
But sometimes,
Some cavemen take their chances,
And leave their secured world to explore the workings of the race and perhaps find ways to a better place.
[i]But why do we assume
That we ever truly understand the other’s words
By believing we can ever share a space where only two eyes can venture?[/i]
And perhaps we can learn from another’s interpretation of the roads that we have names for.
The caveman is to be careful on his journey to freedom,
And remember that roads depart in many places.
How many exits can we remember?
How many set --Good-to-go—tracks?
Maps?
….They’re necessary.
And this is where caveman can become man.
Drawing on a wall.
“This is what I see”
THE DIVINE HERO
CHAMPION OF THE WORLD
BLESSED WITH THE ABILITY TO SEE THE DIVINE
TO EXPERIENCE GOD.
AND LIVE AS ONE WITH IT.
[b]CROWNED WITH GLORY AS HE STUMBLES BACKWARDS INTO A CAVE ENTRANCE AND FINALLY,
ONCE RAISING HIS EYES FROM THE RUBBLE AT HIS FEET,
REALIZES HE FINALLY SEES THE WORLD WE ALL LIVE IN.[/b]