- Jul 17, 2008
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I'm very much a man that believes in science and nature as opposed to religion and a greater being so I was annoyed that the first thing I did yesterday was appeal to God to save Eriksen. Is it just early childhood indoctrination that makes you do that? Medical science, basic life support and advanced life support saved him, nothing else or supernatural, and I know that. What a weird day.
I don't want to open up a whole theological debate, but even I use the phrases "please god" or "thanks god", but I've always seen it as something indoctrinated since childhood as I grew up in a religious Catholic family. I hold no real weight into it, its like saying "go to hell" or "damn you" when I dont believe in hell. You'd find people of other religious backgrounds saying "gods" plural depending on their faith.
My personal truth is that there is no god, only science, but of course I can't be certain. Most incidents like that often leave me scratching my head wondering why people thank god for his recovery or say how the people brought him back by the will of god, when to me if there is a god I can't understand why our bodies would be designed in such a flawed way or why he/she/it would let this happen. Clearly to me the god of classical theism either doesn't exist or is flawed. Perhaps there's a creator with limited powers. I don't know and I don't really care as it doesn't factor in my every day life. My maxim for life is just not to be a dick to others and treat people fairly without prejudice. I don't need religion to tell me or scare me into this with threats of eternal damnation. Anyway, this is purely my opinion and of course I may be wrong. I'm Not going to try to force people to seeing it my way as taking faith away from others is a dick move. People are entitled to their beliefs and may think I'm completely wrong, and that's fair enough. I think that's about as much as I'll day on this topic as its not the thread for it. All I hope is that Christian recovers well and goes on to live a full and happy life.