The Titanic Crash:( Re-worked )
If we
asked a young university student, what do you think about the possibility of God
existing?
They
might reply, I am only a human being. Every person elsewhere is a human being
like me because human beings are only more sophisticated animals. So we're all
animals with a bigger brain, opposable thumbs, complex languages and drive to
group and succeed together.
Some classic thinkers state that everybody and
everything exists in God. That God is in everything, therefore everywhere.
Somebody?
I
am a somebody of everybody that exists. So I am that God. Therefore, everything
has to go according to my standards and preferences. So essentially, I am that
God and so are the other sophisticated animals with whom we negotiate our lives. I
know two beautiful girls; they are in love with me and I am in love with them.
One is enthusiastic about moving in with me to my house. She is attractive,
willing, and able to do everything with me.
The other
is attractive and is not willing nor able to move into my house. Why? Because
she believes in waiting for Mr Right and has strange ethics and morals.
Now I am
a God in my reality and if there is no real God out there, I will assume or take over
that role. The first willing and able girl who enthusiastically believes what I
believe can negotiate her position with me. Since there is no God,I will do
whatever I want and am only accountable to me and her; even so that position is
debatable.
Thinking Almost Pervasive
This kind
of thinking goes on in more people's minds than you or I might believe. This
kind of thinking begins with the denial or affirmation of the existence of God.
It conditions the two basic fundamental views of life which is the anthropocentric and the theocentric behaviour.
If Man is
the ultimate measure of worth and that there is no God there is therefore no objective
right or wrong, then murder, rape and stealing are personal choices. There is
no ultimate right or wrong. Everything is determined by individual choice. If
enough people think and act the same way, then a group of them can be a society
unto themselves and then they can enact and enforce laws accordingly. By their chosen viewpoint.
God and
no God are the ultimate two poles of societal division. A theistic or
atheistic worldview is the ultimate division of humanity. Two views that exist with
a vast gulf more expansive than the North and South poles. The world lies between these two (and inevitably pushes up against each) pole. No theist can be a
consistently believing person all the time because we are human beings with
bias and prejudice built and developed in ourselves. We pick up bits and pieces
of insight, syncretically adopt principles, fuse them into a whole worldview,
and apply these odds and ends characteristically without too much thought to life.
So, too, the atheist, who cannot live out the ideals of the atheistic world-
view consistently for the same reason.
This is a fundamental dilemma of humankind.
However it's not really
either, but somewhere in the gulf between which exists and plays out in real life.
Why?
There are countless variations within this gulf. So, there is
much individual mutation or scope of life- principles within. It is still
basically only a clash of two world views. Every sub world -view is a spectrum
of variation between the two most significant perspectives. Within atheistic
beliefs, this can lead to pessimism, leads to misery, which brings
meaninglessness and despair into the heart and life of the atheist.
We all
decide which philosophy or system of thought we will follow, even when we don't
call ourselves philosophers.
God helps Christians( theists) live and reach people everywhere with the Good News of life. Similarly, the atheist, with human help only, spreads his view across the
world.
