Sunday, August 31, 2008
Ever since I took GREL101 last semester, I've been really contemplating about life. I've gone through many phases in my life, and I used to be very Atheist, I used to be a ..."born again?" Christian, and now I'm back to my old agnosticism... so I've always been on the search, you may say. I hate that so many of the surveys/quizzy things we've done in this class so far include questions like "is there a God?" or whether I believe that "having a personal relationship with God" is important to me or not. We live in America, so obviously the main thing we will discuss is "God" and blah blah blah... but what about other religions? Other points of view? Spirituality without "GOD" or "JESUS?" If I say that having a "personal relationship with God" is not important to me, am I automatically an atheist with no meaning in my life? I feel so tired of my constant search for some higher power... is it not okay to just be spiritual? To believe that there's something there, and to just shrug and say... I can't prove it, I can't not disprove it... but I'm going to live my life and be happy. What's wrong with that? I may not be a "Christian" like I used to be, but I believe my life has meaning.
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Take a look at the work of Daniel Dennett, a philosopher at Tufts. He recently wrote a book called, "Breaking the Spell." You can find video lectures on YouTube. He is an atheist who argues that we should study *ALL* religions in school so that we have an appreciation of all religious and spiritual traditions. He argues that religion is a natural phenomenon that should be studied like any natural phenomenon.
I think that it is dangerous to just stop caring about whether God exist or not, because if there is a higher power, and he dose require something of you and there are negative effects of not obeying this higher power then we should be weary of shrugging God of, personally after studying the writings, history, and evidence of several religions I have come to a pretty firm conclusion on which one is truth. I would suggest that everyone get I good idea themselves by looking at all religions subjectively, and it seems like that is what you are prepared to do.
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