Religion

Yeah, I'm going to air my views on religion. If you are a religious militant type who can't tolerate any opinion but your own, leave this page now. Ok, here's how I see it. Religion was invented by humans to try and explain their world and the goings on that they had no idea why they happened. The Gods or God was the source of all mysterious happenings from flooding, volcanoes erupting, disease, and even warfare. This explains why the gods are portrayed with such human characteristics. God is angry so that must be why the mountain blew up. God is happy, that must be why the rainbow appeared. Ok, so now that we have this established, let's fast forward a few thousand years to the present. We now know what causes earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, tornadoes, disease and things like this. Yet there seems to be this core of people who truly believe that God (or gods) are somewhere up in heaven looking down at our every little move and judging us on not only every deed but every thought as well. This whole thing strikes me as ridiculous. It's almost as if God were being portrayed as the federal government (as represented by some conspiracy theorists). A force, entity, being, however you want to label it, that has the power to create the entire universe (which is pretty damn vast, we have scientific evidence) would have much better things to do with it's spare time than to nit pick at human's lives. Seriously, it's like the CEO of a Fortune 500 company following around the lady who works part time in the cafeteria to make sure she doesn't screw anything up. This is petty, which is another human attribute humans tend to ascribe to an entity they have absolutely no hope of comprehending. Can you comprehend infinity? I can't. Can you comprehend the amount of energy put out by our sun alone in one day? We can ascribe numbers to it but can you really grasp it? And think of all the planets out there that have the potential for life. Yet humans are so self centered and arrogant that they believe that the creator of the universe is following their every word, deed and thought. Seriously? I don't buy it. I DO believe in a God. A creator. A force that caused existence for everything to be. I do not believe that power is capable of negativity. For example, in nature we have particles with positive charge, negative charge and no charge at all. I do not believe that a creator can be all three of these things at once. I think of the creator as a positive charge or positive energy. Hence if you do good things and think good thoughts you accumulate positive energy. If you do bad things you accumulate negative energy. I don't think "God" smites anyone. So let's jump a little further along here. If the creator is a positive energy force with sentience and there was nothing until the creator willed it into being, then everything that creator created came from itself. It is everyone and everything, at least in part. The Law of Conservation of Mass states: Matter can be changed from one form into another, mixtures can be separated or made, and pure substances can be decomposed, but the total amount of mass remains constant. We can state this important law in another way. The total mass of the universe is constant within measurable limits; whenever matter undergoes a change, the total mass of the products of the change is, within measurable limits, the same as the total mass of the reactants. With this in mind, think about it. We are all part of the creator, whatever it is. Perhaps our purpose is to help the creator understand itself, because it understands us all too well and we can never hope to understand it. Ok. Done. Just had to be said.