It is a non-issue what God does or doesn’t for His / Her creation. The crux of the matter is, for the believers of God, of whatever religious following, it is matter of faith, whether it is blind or not. Faith is unquestionable, unchallengeable and non-negotiable.
When I was in Form 5 back in Malaysia or Year 10 of Melbourne equivalent, class dismissed early on Friday afternoon. The Muslim students would to go to mosque or Christian students to the school chapel. Friday afternoon was a ball for me and some classmates. Well it was more of a Great Debate with a very staunch Christian classmate who definitely did not share our views. We debated about science versus religion, evolution versus creation, cause and effect versus His / Her actions. All of us were very serious about our non-wavering beliefs, and we always parted to “agree to disagree”.
I’m a thinker and have views on almost every subject, including religion. I have written many blog, and Notes in FB discussing about my views and philosophy. Unlike many firm religious believers take words, phrases and sentences from their religious books very seriously, I make fun of my name being having a “Sin”, probably the only “sin” I have while many other people having all the seven deadly ones. “Sin” is a phonetic translation of the second word in my Chinese name and has no connotation of “sin” which means “something that offends moral or ethical principle”, or in religious sense, “an act, thought, or way of behaving that goes against the law or teachings of a religion, especially when the person who commits it is aware of this”.
Do you believe that plagues, bush fires, floods, tsunamis, drought, famines, and other natural disasters are acts of gods? I don’t. I do agree that some are attributed to mankind’s stupidity of misusing and selfish mistreatment of our precious planet’s resources, but most are natural phenomena since day dot.
In the last paragraph, I use the word gods rather than God, because in mainstream religions, believers will only accept one and only Almighty, while others, which the mainstreamers think that they are just mythologies and cults, have many gods carrying out various duties, in a way similar to angels or archangels. As to the words “day dot”, I don’t really want to go into details about how it begins, and why humans are so interested or concerned about it.
What are humans going to do about these disasters? Immediate proactive mobilisation of human’s physical labour, invention, ingenuity, inner power and commonsense is paramount. On the contrary, no one should point his / her point finger at other’s wrong doing, if any; instead get down to fix the problems constructively, and ensure future problems can be avoided or destructive effects minimised.
To be continued ...
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When I was in Form 5 back in Malaysia or Year 10 of Melbourne equivalent, class dismissed early on Friday afternoon. The Muslim students would to go to mosque or Christian students to the school chapel. Friday afternoon was a ball for me and some classmates. Well it was more of a Great Debate with a very staunch Christian classmate who definitely did not share our views. We debated about science versus religion, evolution versus creation, cause and effect versus His / Her actions. All of us were very serious about our non-wavering beliefs, and we always parted to “agree to disagree”.
I’m a thinker and have views on almost every subject, including religion. I have written many blog, and Notes in FB discussing about my views and philosophy. Unlike many firm religious believers take words, phrases and sentences from their religious books very seriously, I make fun of my name being having a “Sin”, probably the only “sin” I have while many other people having all the seven deadly ones. “Sin” is a phonetic translation of the second word in my Chinese name and has no connotation of “sin” which means “something that offends moral or ethical principle”, or in religious sense, “an act, thought, or way of behaving that goes against the law or teachings of a religion, especially when the person who commits it is aware of this”.
Do you believe that plagues, bush fires, floods, tsunamis, drought, famines, and other natural disasters are acts of gods? I don’t. I do agree that some are attributed to mankind’s stupidity of misusing and selfish mistreatment of our precious planet’s resources, but most are natural phenomena since day dot.
In the last paragraph, I use the word gods rather than God, because in mainstream religions, believers will only accept one and only Almighty, while others, which the mainstreamers think that they are just mythologies and cults, have many gods carrying out various duties, in a way similar to angels or archangels. As to the words “day dot”, I don’t really want to go into details about how it begins, and why humans are so interested or concerned about it.
What are humans going to do about these disasters? Immediate proactive mobilisation of human’s physical labour, invention, ingenuity, inner power and commonsense is paramount. On the contrary, no one should point his / her point finger at other’s wrong doing, if any; instead get down to fix the problems constructively, and ensure future problems can be avoided or destructive effects minimised.
To be continued ...
Click here for An Unfinished Story - Part 2