Religious topics#4 (348)

We watched a video of a discussion between two men in world humanities. One was defending religion and the other claimed to be antiatiest (I think). Well, at least, he said atheists don’t believe in a god but they wish there was one. They just have no proof. But he is different because he doesn’t believe there is a god and he finds it to be good that there isn’t. I took notes on both sides and I don’t want to make this guy’s more important or dominant but I think he brought up some really interesting topics and points. First, he believes that as humans, our brains seek answers. They crave knowledge and reason. Our brains would rather take in a conspiracy theory rather than no theory. Perhaps that’s because we are scared of not having answers. So, it would make sense that as the first humans had no science or technology, they needed answers for why it rained, why people got sick, why they died, etc. and so maybe we made answers for ourselves. Maybe the smartest of us came up with ideas. He mentions that some people were greedy and sought power. Maybe they claimed to by holy or have a connection to this/these God(s) and therefor gained a high status and pampering. (that’s a theory). A very interesting question he posed was kind of like which came first, the chicken or the egg? His question was, “did God create man, or did man create God?” well he then continued to tell the viewer his opinion. He thought if man created God there wasn’t too much to discuss. We all have our different theories of religions. But what if God created man? Then why does he let everyone believe in a different God and why does he let us fight and shed blood over him? I just thought that his points were pretty valid and very philosophical. The other man mainly went over a different topic and it didn’t have as many points I found interesting to write about otherwise I would include them too.