Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Earthquake, Hurricane? Wasn't G-d...

So far this week, in the subway stations I've been to, the street preachers (and at least one prominent national politician (who has since backtracked to say it was just a joke)) have a common theme...  That last week's earthquake and this weekends Hurricane Irene are the wrath of G-d...

But I must disagree...  Basically on the whole G-d thing to start with...

I think the concept of G-d may have made sense a long time ago, and still does slightly.  G-d is a good way to to fill in the blanks, the unknown knowledge.  Thousands of years ago people probably didn't know about meteorology, why it rained, why it didn't and things like that.  They were probably used the normal, average yearly weather cycles, and when things deviated, when big storms came, they just prayed to G-d(s) and do it long enough and the cycles swing back to normal...

But we humans have, overall, accumulated more knowledge that's built up and built up...  Why use G-d to fill in blanks that simply aren't there anymore?

For instance, if a young child is just learning math, and thinks 2 + 3 is 6, we might be pleased that they're working on learning math, and eventually they'll learn a more accurate answer.  But if years later they persist in thinking 2 + 3 is 6, because they don't want to change, we'll, we won't really stand for that.

So we do so many people do that with religion?

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