Original Scripture? Or Hoax? (Part Five)
By: Seeker
So by the time I grew old enough to leave home, I was pretty much done with the classic story of Christian Religion. What the institution had done across the centuries, the way it lied, manipulated, persecuted and tortured, the wars, pillaging and genocides more than cancelled out the good done by individuals who honestly believed and acted on the precepts of their faith.
Imagine if the Library at Alexandria was still around? How about if all the knowledge of the Mayan people, the Inca, the Native North Americans and many others had not been destroyed and the people wiped out because ‘God loves them’? How far forward would we be advanced if the Dark Ages had never happened?
For a time I was probably atheist in my views, preferring to see the whole God-problem as the sick creation of sick minds, needing to be purged from the race so we could, as a race, mature past the level of hiding under beds from the hobgoblins. But slowly, things changed for me.
Science is a good way to examine the physical world. The way things work in the three dimensions respond, mostly, quite well to the ideal of Science. Recently, with Relativity and Quantum theory, as well as the puzzling aspects of Cosmology, this has changed, but even before that, I had noticed things about the world for which Science was either reticent about explanations or it refused to accept there was a problem.
So my views changed. I came to realize that just because Man’s expression of basic Truth is flawed, it doesn’t mean that there is no Basic Truth. One of the things I like to put in signatures on forums I visit is…
‘Don’t doubt there is Truth, just doubt that you have it!’
August 31st, 2008 at 10:17 am
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