Please do not be dismayed.. I neither have the time nor the inclination to start a debate on whether God exists or not.. I have long believed that "for those who believe, no proof is needed. For those who don't, no proof is enough" (thank you, David Blaine)... My reason (or excuse, depends on how you look at it) for writing this post is the sickening trend of agnosticism .. It seems as if God has been relegated to the same group as System or the State.. Whatever happens, Blame it on God...
Someone once said that we laugh at old customs but religiously follow the new ones.. We seem to have enough reasons to question the existence of God, but not enough proof to support our case.. Why do we ask him (or, her) to prove his/her existence when we take for granted, so many things in life... We spend a vast majority of life believing in molecular science and astronomy while a vast majority of us never really see an actual electron or fly in space, for that matter... My point is that when we believe in science through all its inferential proofs then why do we demand exactitude when it comes to theology..
At the risk of being branded blasphemous, I'd go to the extent of saying that Atheism is better than Agnosticism.. At least we are not asking question to someone who cannot (or will not) answer... and we are not asking for an answer which we will never believe anyway... If one still chooses to be an agnostic then so be it... my advice would be, when you question the creator, you'll have to question the creations too... think about it...
well murthi, this is an excellent thought provoking thinking. i think the image in my orkut album about religion and science may help you to put it in this post.
ReplyDeletei remember of a joke i read somewhere on the internet/forward mail, a professor of philosophy asked the students in class "have you seen god? have you touched god? have stolen god?" nobody answered. the prof concluded "then it proves that there is no god". a student stood up and asked "have you seen professor's brain? have you touched the professor's brain? have you stolen the professor's brain?" again, the no body answered! the student concluded "does this prove that the professor has no brain?" it goes like this only. i conclude with some gujju poet's thinking "श्रध्दा नो हो विषय तो पुरावा नी शि जरुर छे?
कुरान माँ कया पयगम्बर नी सही छे?"