On faith...

Couple of bloggers make it their business to bash religion proclaiming that it's backward, dark and ignorant. Some see that it's only logical to be Atheist. While I do see their arguments for the most part, I prefer not to get into this "clash".

Personally, Atheism is just like any religion, it has it's followers, it has it's rules and guidelines, and it promises to make people's life better. The major difference between Atheism and all other religions is always .... God!

Now, I do realize that there are many differences between atheism and most religions. But there are similarities as well. The idea of not believing in anything until it's proved beyond any shadow of a doubt is somewhat too simplistic for people who think they're the progressive forward thinkers of the world.

Not believing something until it can be sensed can be very dangerous as our sense do play tricks on us. And sometimes even our minds therefore a factor in both schools of thought will always exist, Doubt!

Doubt, in this specific context is the opposite of Faith. You decide if you have faith in spite of your doubt, more on that later

The mere fact that one argument can never be proven either way, brings doubt as a scientific tool into play in both cases. I can prove that something is hot or cold in several ways. One is by touching it (and this falls under our senses and how dangerous that might be) or I can use logic to deduce it's temperature. I can rely on math. Or even a tool to know the temperature of something and then be able to state what I think

The issue is complicated even more if my view of hot or cold is different than other people's views. But this issue of proving or disproving the existence of god is a discussion that will go on for ever. And I'm positive of that. Mainly because, there is no way for us to know anything that took place before the Big Bang something that most cosmologist consider the very first event in our existence. But many will admit that certain things existed before it, like "Time". Therefore Time might be the supreme ruler of the universe. So I might start a new religion and call it "Time-ology". Tom-Cruse is invited of course.

Anyway, back to doubt, faith and certainty. The existence of a god is a matter of faith. The reason I say that is that despite what many would argue (and I may add from both side), the existence of God can never be proved. Not in a college of science. On the very same not, then non-existence of God can be equally impossible to prove. It's not about proving or disproving what people understood from one book, or from one set of teachings it's about the main question, who made the universe, and thereby, does God exist.

The interesting thing about faith is that you consider things as if they're certain, and have no doubt even though there is no hard proof. This is exactly why people can't repent after death. Because Faith is impossible when you have certainty. In other words Faith - doubt = certainty. We agree that certainty is an unknown constant. Therefore Faith= Certainty + Doubt

This formula proves that Faith is always larger than doubt, and of certainty. That's why it's so hard to understand and that's why some people prefer to take the formula: doubt = Faith - Certainty. Ending up with neither. 

On a humorous note, lets consider the alternatives. If I am wrong, then nothing would happen. But if I am right then atheists have all eternity to think about it as you rot in hell.