Beyond REASONable doubt.

I logged onto my computer, went to HuffingtonPost.com to see if there was any update on the Health care ruling, but no dice! :(


I then proceeded to browse the website, to see if there was anything the peaked my interest. I often go to the Huffington Post to get my news on various subjects such as politics, entertainment and news in general. You may have a site that you use, that's cool, I am not judging. I find the Huffington Post easy to navigate and very up-to –date.


But I digress…


    This post is not a review of the Huffington Post website; it's an article that I stumbled upon on the website. The title was "Young Americans Losing Faith? New Poll Shows 31 Percent of Adults under 30 Doubt God Exists" (I will put a link at the end of the post)


    Let me just say I have struggled with religion for about 10 years now. I will not go into too much detail but over the years of my childhood, there have been many instances where I cannot believe or think there is "God" let me just leave it at that.


    The article begins with showing a recent poll shows that 31% of young Americans doubt the assistance of God, which does not surprise me. The article goes on to say that 15 % of young Americans dropped their faith over the past 5 years and a 2007 Pew poll found 83 percent of those in the "Millennial" generation never doubted the existence of God.


    On the worldwide front, the Vatican and local catholic churches are experiencing a shortage of priests, which they "blame" on secularism, the sex abuse scandals.This means young people are expressing doubts about God more now than at any time since Pew started asking the question on its American Values Survey a decade ago.


What I say to all of this is…It's about time!


    Based on what we know about the universe and the astonishing lack of evidence, it seems very unlikely that there is no God. I tend to see God as a metaphor, as a word that is used to convey that which cannot be covered by words. I see a spiritual experience as real, but not in the subjective sense. I see them as being created in the brain, and nothing to do with the existence of God.


I feel a sort of solace in this new development. I have been conflicted in my religion for a long while and I am happy to see that there are others that feel the same way. I think that there needs to be more people speaking out more about science, reason and knowledge. We tend to say people who "believe" in God are moral, ethical and good people because they believe in "god" Recent history has shown us that there has been more bloodshed in the name of "my god" than of anything else. This reminds me of a quote that was said once by Bill maher in one of his stand up specials.


    They ask him (known atheists) why he "attacks" religion:
    "Why do you have to go after religion? It gives people comfort; it doesn't hurt anything." Okay, well, other than most wars, the Crusades, the Inquisition, 9/11, arranged marriages to minors, blowing up girls' schools, the suppression of women and homosexuals, fatwas, ethnic cleansing, honor rape, human sacrifice, burning witches, suicide bombings, condoning slavery, and the systematic fucking of children, there's a few little things I have a problem with."

 What I am trying to get at here is that religion is a flawed, overused, bigoted based idea that needs to be eradicated. I was happy to read on the Huffington Post that there are more and more individuals willing to stand up for reason. Religion stops people from thinking because it makes you think that you know all the answers or it makes you think "god will take care of it" there are so many people on my Facebook that end a sad situation with " pray for me" To them prayer makes them feel good, it gives them comfort. What gives me comfort knows that I have done a good deed because I am a good person not because I feel the need to in order to secure my "place in heaven" UGH! Heaven, yeah because God wants to party with your ghost for the rest of eternity, ok that really makes sense, which is another post for another time! But in light of the circumstances in which we do it, prayer is pretty ridiculous.
It gives me some piece of mind that others are coming to the realization that religions is cause of all the injustices in the world and sooner we realize this, the sooner we are better off.

 
Link to article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/26/young-adults-losing-faith-americans-under-30-doubt-god-exists_n_1627333.html