I have spent a lot of time in the last few years reading books, arguments, articles, listening to debates and talks by religious literates; mostly Islamic and Christian scholars combing through series of modern disciplines in search for evidence that God exists or religion is true, writes CHRIS-VINCENT on BrutallyUncensored.Com.
The phrase ‘religious literates’ may sound like an oxymoron but in fact, there are many of such people—who mostly hold varying positions in relation to this one true God and His many religions.
Apart from the obvious contradiction in attempts by ‘religious literates’ to provide evidence for the existence of God or to establish the veracity of religion via evidence and the foundation of the belief in God-FAITH, these attempts make such people seem more confused about their own quest and beliefs.
If the belief in God or being part of a religious group is wholly and fundamentally grounded in FAITH which can be defined as ‘believing without evidence’, why then are so many religious people running around looking for evidence to authenticate their God or religion?
Of course the answer is clear, people are becoming smarter—and they would not accept any sort of hogwash thrown at them even if from the clergy, contrary to what the case was in the past.
The God believers and preachers have realized that the game is changing against them—people are shedding off the skin of credulity while embracing reason—FAITH which is perhaps the definition of credulity is losing the battle.
Believing by faith stretches to mean, in the face of all opposing evidence and reason to the existence of a God or the truthfulness of religion—just believe the latter…
From the Palaeolithic age to the era of Enlightenment, the God believers and religious zealots had it easy with humanity; people just believed everything that they were told and as such, the concept of FAITH was fit for purpose.
Today, the game has changed and a little 7 year old girl in Japan or in fact any of the secular countries wouldn’t agree to live her entire life believing in something if you cannot provide evidence to back the existence of that thing, especially if the belief contradicts reason.
This has somewhat become a deadly blow to religion leading to decrease in its global membership. In a 2012 study, it emerged that the third largest “group” in the world are those without religious affiliation—coming just after Christianity and Islam. This third largest-‘unaffiliated’ category is made up all those who profess no religion, from atheists and agnostics to people with spiritual beliefs but no link to any established faith.
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