It’s not that I don’t care about religion, or God, or how the universe was created or the purpose of man. In all honesty, I think I care about it more than most priests, rabbis or any other religious leader. For many of us, it took years of self-critique and the courage to admit that perhaps our lives were wrong, that our belief system should be put in question for the sake of truth and not be led blinded by chance or faith that perhaps what is told by an authority is completely and undoubtedly correct. We all know that humans make mistakes, that authority figures are among those who make the most life changing errors. So why shouldn’t we as a citizen of our social network, a rational human being, and most importantly a believer who truly and wholeheartedly wants to know the ambiguous and most inconclusive questions of philosophy - ask, critique, analyze, and even break down with skepticism some of the questions of taboo; the problem of evil, the chaos between law, order and freedom, or whether God really matters in the larger scheme of things?
Sometimes to understand and cognitively hold grasp this “truth,” you have to be willing to let go of your egoism, the foundation of your belief system and not be afraid to start over from scratch. It is the bias that binds us to our belief system, not the truth itself; because that in fact is the sole objective we’re attempting to filter out from this concoction of ideologies. We must not fear the abandonment of our belief in God and religion, because it is through this internal fear where our thoughts are most contaminated and our rational is to a large part held back by biases.
The truth is out there. You just have to be willing to put aside the baggage and constantly search for it, instead of looking towards higher authorities for their perspective.
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