One of my colleagues wrote a Blog in our internal website that he is an Atheist; in response to that I have written the below, read and get bored!!
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I believe in God, ask me to prove it or show him \ her; I can not nor can I disrobe the shape, size, sex or age of the God. Further if you ask me which symbol is greater among these Om, Crescent, Cross, Star of David, Menora, Swastika I don’t have an answer to that as well – I just know that there is one!!
Same as you or anybody else – it is very difficult to discuss about this topic for me due to its sensitivity and people get offended and take it too personal when we say “what you believe is wrong”; everyone has there own right to religion and as it has to be noted that as per Indian constitution following a religion is one of the fundamental rights... and logically belief in God is the first step of any religion!! So when you say you are an Atheist I respect your newly found religion and would not discourage you from following it....
You have thought of some ideas – borrowed some ideas and provided reasoning as to why you think you are an Atheist; let me tell you my reasoning as to why I think I believe in God and that HE exist.
1. You definitely know about big bang where the entire universe is created; this universe mainly works the way it works due to gravity (Every point mass attracts every other point mass by a force pointing along the line intersecting both points. The force is directly proportional to the product of the two masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the point masses) however from where did it come? There has to be some supernatural power which creates this universe; there has to be an explanation for the big bang at a infinite time of the past. As Newton’s third law of motion points out (Whenever a particle A exerts a force on another particle B, B simultaneously exerts a force on A with the same magnitude in the opposite direction. The strong form of the law further postulates that these two forces act along the same line. This law is often simplified into the sentence, "To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.") a mass can not on its own blast off in space and expand continuously; there has to be a force so strong that created the mass in the first place and responsible for everything that we know of – I believe that force is God as there has been no scientific explanation to us till date and every religion believes that it is He who is responsible for creation of everything.
2. Every living organism in this earth has been evolved from single sell organism (ameba) which does not have shape, size nor can be seen by a naked eyes – some religion believe man has been created by God who does not have shape, size and can not be seen by naked eye!! Does that mean Ameba is God – nope however who put that single sell organism on earth – some think that it has come from havens through meteoroid – I think God sent that single sell organism which has evolved to what we are...
3. Simply I put blame on God for everything that does not have a scientific explanation to it – reason; things become clearer when we have God as starting point for some thing; once something has been started – God does not come into pitcher as He becomes irrelevant and illogical. This day religion has also become like that – even developed country like America has there official moto and print it on there currency or developing country Philippine on there sky scrapers proudly put the words “In God We Trust”; Vidhana sowdha in Bangalore says “Govt. work is God’s work”; “God, Country, Liberty” for Spain, “God is with us” Russia and Germany, “God, Honor, Fatherland” Poland, “God and my right” – UK and Scottish people say “In My Defens God Me Defend “ Here GOD is representing entire nation or working of entire state; not everyone in the world is fool to believe in God – if 99.99% of people say something is correct – even if it is wrong; I would not personally would either be part of the 99.99% or would not raise my voice against every one else in the world. Most of the people in the world believe in God, hence I also believe in God. Most of the people in the world believe in different Gods!! or have different definition of God – hence I do not raise my voice against that nor would comment on which type of God do I trust in...
4. When it comes to following religion and tradition – it looks so natural to me; when there is a traffic signal, the light turns to red; now there are some scenarios – One) there is a traffic police at the other part of the signal and he is visibly providing tickets to the previous offenders; this way every one would think twice to break the law for the sake of punishment and the price that they have to pay. Two) there is traffic light, it turns to Red and due to law, some people would stop where police is monitoring or not; they would not want to take risk as police might be hiding at the corner just to catch them and ask them to pay fine. Three) traffic lights are just of the convenience of general public and there is no law nor police force present in any country of the world; logically as per my belief no one would follow stopping in Red light as there is no consequence and they feel they are important and other people should stop when they cross the junction. This might and will lead to accidents and death of people!! Now if we carefully look at rules and tradition of each religion there is some logic to it – at least some logic which was valid at the point when the rule / tradition was created, everyone had to follow it otherwise there will be no order in the population as a whole. Just the way traffic offenders are scared of tickets, people had to be scared of something however no one should be able to see it or feel the intensity of the fine. So the logic of after life comes in (if you fine one rupee to drink and drive offender the he would no longer be scared of fine – if they are stripped of huge money or they know it would be huge fine, every one would at least think once before drinking and driving) so in my logic traditions are good to follow if you find a logic in it – if you don’t then tweak it to current scenario and follow it; however just because of traditions or rules of a religion I would not deny the existence of God.
May be I can go on for pages together on this topic; bottom line is I believe in some Super Natural Power called God; I do not name him \ her, I do not try to find reason, do not question the tradition just follow if I want to follow other wise do not; if you are an Atheist – good for you; you don’t have to pray for your promotion nor blame anyone if you don’t get it apart from your own efforts. You don’t have to spend enormous amount of money marriage or festivals just a signature will do!! Don’t have to spend time / money to go to Jerusalem / Vatican / Mecca / Kushinagar / Amritsar or 1000’s of pilgrimage places which is dedicated to Hindus... however remember my dear Atheist if you don’t find answer for something in science or logic – try finding the answer in God; if you are lucky you might find the answer – always keep your options open :)
Regards,
Sudhi
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