The creation of the divine is a failure of the human spirit.

Food for thought, isn't it? After having another talk about religion and spirituality with Walter I decided to post some of the thoughts I have always had about the matter, but felt too nice to unload it on someone, thus crushing their little world if they cannot rationalize it for themselves.

"The Divine Failure", by Absence Of The Sacred puts these thoughts across pretty nicely.

"Practicality does not involve fervent prayer, for my actions speak louder than your words". Food for thought indeed. Does praying with all your heart for something really do more for the matter than actually doing something about it? The rebuttal usually consists of the praying participants saying "it doesn't directly help, it also calms oneself and gives one confidence in the matter". Counter argument: Is one's spirit so weak that your own self confidence is insufficient?" This also begs the question: "Why do people still believe in deities in an age where almost everything can be scientifically explained?" This using the widely accepted assumption that religion was created in the ancient days where people were unable to explain things like geysers or eclipses. Now that there are relatively fewer unexplained occurances(almost none in fact), is there still a reason to ape these millenia old beliefs, hoping it will somehow better our lives?

"From the fear of death an illusion is born". More potent food for thought.Isn't this the main reason for most people to have their belief in something which can never be proven to be real. Here's another interesting quote, "there're no atheists in the foxhole". Before death, even the staunchest atheists find their faith, JUST IN CASE there actually IS a god. So religious people can technically be classified as people who are have bought insurance a little earlier.

I will continue in the next post, rather sleepy now. Bass section in GEM has FINISHED our part, yes finished. Boo ya