Religion

Since i was a young boy, there was no free will in the choice to believe in what i wanted to, propaganda at every turn through music, church, stories and life changing experiences that my mother use to tell me, to make me believe in the holy trinity - father, son and holy ghost. I had no choice, church was a must! i have almost been to church for almost every week of my life and every time I went more propaganda was being introduced to me. An example of this propaganda, there was once a couple that was introduced into church the wife was Christian and she married a man who wasn't and she brought him to this course called the alpha course, which introduces Christianity to people, straight away i felt that the wife did the wrong thing, a Christian shouldn't marry a non Christian! absurd idea! and a few days later i realised the propaganda had worked and it brought me to question my faith. The propaganda had succeeded for many years, I was one of the best Christian boys out there till that, that day it dawned to me and i have forever been changed.

Over the years, with becoming more educated and i guess more intelligent, i have been asking myself the deepest of questions and throughout the years have been in conflict with my soul for the answer. Today i will tell you that answer, hopefully it is the most profound answer that i can ever give to anyone.

So the first question, is there a God? The short answer: Yes. How do we know? because in the creation of men, for men to exist there were a series of multiple events that lead to us becoming what we are today, and non of those events could have occurred without some sort of divine intervention. The big bang, the creation of the universe. Do you think that randomly the universe imploded in itself to become what it is today? Certainly without a doubt science points to intelligent design. First let me explain how big the universe is. Earth, where all current known life is situated on, the earth is quite big, wouldn't you say? It holds 6 billion humans and trillions of other living things. The earth orbits a rather unremarkable star, that star can fit 1,300,000 Earths in it, and that sun is very small compared to other stars in our galaxy. There are 400 million stars in our galaxy, our galaxy orbits a bigger galaxy - andromeda which has three trillion stars. The universe has millions of galaxies, some bigger some smaller then the milky way( our galaxy) each of these galaxies have about a trillion stars, each of these star have a chance for an earth sized object to orbiting around them. So the answer is the universe is big, very big, but the main point im trying to make is that a random event cannot create something so profoundly remarkable, there had to be intelligent design, God if you will. Now, the creation of men - evolution, the theory at least states that, we came from bacteria which evolved and evolved and evolved to finally it became the diversity of life we have today. Again there is no reason why elements had to come together to form this carbon based life form - bacteria, which then evolved to other things such as dinosaurs, mammals, insects ect. Was it a random event that produced that bacteria? which then evolved to the wide diversity of life we have today? i highly doubt that it was random, again to think that we were random, is just plain illogical. There has to be a God, no doubt at all there is a God.

The other question, how about religion? As i am not familiar with other religions, i would only comment on Christianity. Religion is mankind's definition of how to worship God. It is not divine, it is as man made as the internet. The Church today is as fallible as men, as men has had a great hand in creating the Church - the religion. The history of the church, in all it glory is not as biblical as one thinks, wars, murder and discrimination are rampant throughout its history, the crusades, for example wars waged in the name of Christ, millions died. The limitation of science, the earth was flat, the universe revolved around the earth, preposterous comments to us now, but the church enforced it and publicized it. This is the Church in the past, the religion was clearly not guided by the hand of God. How about today?, discrimination is still rampant about in the church today. Recently i was told my denomination is not "powerful", this sparked a great rage within me that i couldn't control, to think that one is not as powerful as the other even though we worship the same God? I am ashamed to be Christian, my mother for one thinks that Catholics would not go to heaven because they worship mother Mary. They think other religions are just plain wrong and deserve to be shot down because they are untrue. A video shown by Sahdique to me about a pastor defaming Buddhist is one of them. These are the Christians in the church today people, they are elitist, they promote segregation and defamation through their teachings. My mother called me a few days before because a little bee told her i lost my faith, well the answer to your question mother, is that i lost my faith long ago, i lost my faith in the religion, the religion which help spread aids throughout the continent of Africa, the religion which caused wars, the religion which tells Christians not to marry other Christians unless they convert because they will be unequally yoked, this was the religion i was brought up in and a religion i believed in, but no more.

My best friend tariful told me yesterday something very profound he told me; i believe in the god allah, but i do not believe in religion. I too concur with this, i Eric Jr Tan Believe in a God, Jesus Christ, but not in religion created by men.