An Unfinished Story - Part 2

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Many insurance policies still refer natural disasters as "acts of god". It is amazing though that Satan got the blame for tempting Adam and Eve to eat the apple from the Garden of Eden, and yet all the disasters that had happened in history and in recent times have not been blamed as acts of Satan. More amazing is that god's believers or followers are silent about this, and the terms are still in use.

Does this silence imply that these are actually acts of God? If so, this also implies God has temper, and a very bad one, too. The interesting thing, though, is that God did play favouritism. Can you remember Noah, who saved his family and pairs of animals, by housing them in a big ark built to withstand the flood?

Recent Queensland’s flood peaked below 10 metres. How high did the water level rise to during Noah’s episode? Noah’s Ark storyline is far from sensible and logical. Noah could have built a big barn instead of an ark on higher ground. This would minimise the risk by not sailing in torrential rain subjecting to strong winds and lightning.

Can flood just happen at will? If so, greenies, scientists and weather gurus have been going on the wrong tracks or kept barking up the wrong trees in regards to climate change.

Gods of all religions are supposedly merciful and kind, a role model for the followers. It is unthinkable and unacceptable to flood the world as a form of cleansing, or burn sinners with hell fire because they do not repent. To carry out such acts of extreme heartlessness and cruelty are comparable to the terrorists who flew the planes into the towers with many thousands of occupants which took place during the 9/11.

With all these contradictions, no wonder religion has been blamed to be the reason for almost all the wars in our history. Strictly speaking, this is an untrue assumption because many wars including the two World Wars, Korean War, Vietnam War, and Gulf War were not religion related.

While I am not an expert in Chinese history, but I do know that wars were fought among kingdoms, and the most powerful king of the time eventually ruled China. Mongolians, under Genghis Khan, defeated Song 宋 Emperor and founded Yuan 元 Dynasty; similarly, Manchurians defeated Ming 明 Emperor and founded Qing 请 Dynasty. Foreigners fought and won for territorial expansion, and not because of religious differences.

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An Unfinished Story - Part 1

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.

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