God is Dead

Our country in the last century has sadly become a very sterile, very secular place. Rationalization has gripped our culture, choking the life out of our most important social institutions. Religion and humanity are treated as if they were amoeba in a Petri dish. No longer is belief a valid thought. The beautiful nature of life itself is being perverted by scientific experiments probing the nature of cloning and genetic engineering. This absurd philosophy of empirical rationalization that was born out of the Enlightenment, which began in England in the seventeenth-century, has done more to hinder humanity than excel it, and though its nature is practical and therefore appealing, its ends are destructive. We cannot as people believe that we are alone and existence is meaningless, for the sake of community we must believe that there is higher judgment and reason. Whether it’s true or not is irrelevant. The very essence of belief is practical, in that it motivates its practitioners to improve themselves and the world around them. We should not forget that perfection is unattainable, but moreover that the pursuit of it is worth more than its realization.

Man can’t say that God doesn’t exist, nor prove it.  We can explain away every oddity and mystery in the world, but we can’t explain away on small thing; logos, reason. Now, some may say reason is a product of time and time is a product of the universe, thus reason, too is a product of the universe and therefore, is no evidence of God. In digression however, one might site systematic reason as evidence of God through design. A thought which suggests that, our desire for “ethereal truth” is not to be found in some vaguely quantifiable heavenly realm, but in the very fabric of the universe we live. You can’t argue that reason isn’t universal, whether its science, mathematics, music, art, it all is a product of reason. No other idea or concept is inherent in all things physical and mental. This is the universe of reason and if God exists I would venture to say he is a reasonable being.

e can’t ignore the value of these sterile intellectual disciplines that seem to have work so well for us in the past. So, one must compromise. Though science has found no evidence of God, I say that science itself is evidence of God. It’s hard to dispute intelligent design because it’s hard to imagine that something could come of nothing, but seems to be the nature of the universe. Here we find a brick wall and though theoretical physicals boast the skill to see beyond the beginning of our universe, I feel that any beginning you can see beyond is not a beginning at all. Perhaps I’m thinking pantheism. The thought does seem to be a perfect melding of the God and science, and I believe that in order to understand our meaning and existence we must take into account all human knowledge, collectively and equally.