We perceive through our experiences only a small section of the natural phenom occurring in the world around us. Our imagination is stretched to the upmost, not as in fiction to imagine things that aren’t really there, but just to imagine those things that are there that we have yet to understand.
It’s already difficult enough for us to try and comprehend the true nature of the world we were born into without blindly accepting the gods and other supernatural characters that originally came to life within our forefather’s imaginations many thousands of years ago. Those ideas may add up to nice stories that help obscure rational fears about the negative aspects of the human condition like our impending deaths, but they don’t contain any real and tangible evidence that supports anyone’s beliefs that any of those supernatural characters ever existed.
Believing in Zeus, Jesus or Allah, deprives us of the only opportunity any of us will ever get to understand the true and scientifically sustainable facts about just who and what we really are. Surely such things are worth knowing and pursuing even if we are only able to get a little closer to the truth. At least we will have made an honest effort instead of leading a delusional existence pretending we are still at the center of the universe if not physically than according to our embellished importance in the scheme of things.
One has to wonder if our faith and religious beliefs makes us the laughing stock of the universe.
