The Cherokees and Native Americans are often viewed as heathens by people in the south along the Bible Belt and the Appalachian Region. However, it is important for individuals to realize that Christianity played a vital role for the Cherokees. The Cherokees in particular were spiritual in their beliefs and they also prayed in their own ways, they accepted the Europeans beliefs because of their openness within several organizations. Overtime several different denominations began to enter into Cherokee lands and slowly began to preach, settle, and eventually convert numerous Cherokees into Christianity.

The Native American culture, having been commonly viewed as heathens by Christians, had their own sets of beliefs prior to the Christianization efforts. Christians did not and some still do not realize that their forms of worship and their beliefs are not that different from Cherokee traditions. The Cherokees believed in a Supreme Being, who was the Creator of all. The term spiritual for the Cherokee culture meant an “active and alive flow of energy that connects us all to the Universal Spirit.” [1] Garrett also describes that to a Cherokee being spiritual is similar to holding on to something that we value, such as a lesson in life that we are taught. That is directly related to the way in which we are brought up as children, and how each family teaches and stresses different moral and traditional values to their offspring. While the term spiritual is interchangeable between a way of life for the Cherokees or a religious belief, the spiritual paths of the Cherokees were not taken away by the Europeans who tried to Christianize them. In fact it seemed that the Cherokees wanted to fit into the European culture and by converting to Christianity they were able to fit in and for them that meant become a more civilized culture as a whole.

Prayer is also another term that people associate with Christianity and modern religions. However, the basis of the term was set years ago by the Native Americans. Prayers for them were often in the form of chants or ceremonies. During a prayer the Cherokees did not ask for anything but guidance, but more commonly prayers were believed to be used to give thanks. “The process of praying for Native Americans is fairly open, but subtle; we use certain hand movements…the same is true [for Native Americans] with pointing the open palm(s) toward the sky in ceremonies, which signifies giving thanks to the Universal Spirit and the Great One.” [2] A prayer may be sent by the offering of tobacco much as the tithes that are paid to a church today.

The Cherokee beliefs were generally polytheistic and the belief in multiple gods existed, but one was held to a higher stature than the others. For instance, they believed that the setting Sun was the holder of evil gods, the reason most of their dwellings had openings that only pointed to the east toward the rising sun. Most believed in some form of afterlife and believed that during the afterlife there would either be punishments or rewards meted out by the Great Spirit. One Cherokee after the conversion to Christianity described his belief prior as: “To reverence the great and Supreme Being, love my friends deeply and to take vengeance on my enemies [and after converting to Christianity] In the Indian devotion there is nothing like pure religion. Tho’ they have faint ideas of Deity, yet they are far from loving him with all the heart.” [3] The Christian Cherokee reported his findings in 1823; nearly 25 years after the missionaries began entering the Cherokee country.  

The process of Christianizing the Cherokees was a long process that took place over the course of several years. Upon initial arrival the problem amongst the missionaries was the language barrier. The Cherokee syllabary was created around 1821. With the use of the syllabary Cherokees could now learn to write their language on paper. In 1824, John Arch a full blooded convert became inspired to translate a section of the Gospel according to St. John into Cherokee. This invention facilitated the transformation of the Cherokees. [4] Then by 1828, Samuel Worcester, the editor for the Cherokee Phoenix[5], translated the Lord’s Prayer.[6]

Missionaries began coming into America as early as 1566 with a Catholic Priest by the name of Father Rogers. Rogers upon contact with the Native Americans was uncertain and was unable to communicate with them. Rogers was not able to provide much teaching to the Cherokees, but he was the first recorded missionary. [7] Rogers was not the only missionary to enter and not be able to communicate with the Native Americans. In 1758, a Presbyterian missionary by the name of John Martin began trying to devise a plan to convert Cherokees into Christianity, and in 1799 Moravians entered the Cherokee land and was taken aback at how they were unable to communicate with them.

In the early 1800’s, missions into the Cherokee lands began to increase. At first the Cherokees was not officially opposed to the preaching of Christianity, but they did not want churches built. Cherokees instead wanted their children to be able to attend a school and learn reading, writing, and arithmetic so that their children would be able to communicate with the increase number of Europeans. The Cherokees wanted their children learn all that they could so that they would not be as illiterate and ignorant as they considered themselves to be. The same concepts exist today with the parents of children wanting their children to go beyond what they have been able to accomplish.

Gideon Blackburn, a Presbyterian who was contacted by John Martin after he had visited the Cherokee country, began asking for a government grant in order to educate the Indians. The process was slow and the two began talking in 1758, but it was 1803 before Blackburn received a grant of two hundred dollars in order for him to create a school. Blackburn received the Cherokees approval and was able to construct and establish his first school, one year after receiving his grant. Two years later, in 1806, Blackburn was able to create his second school by using left over funds from the first, and by the success of his first school.

The same year that Blackburn established his school, John Gambold a Moravian missionary was also looking into the Christianization of the Cherokees. Gambold came into the Cherokee country in 1804 and began trying to educate and preach to the Natives. Gambold found out that the Cherokees wanted schools and not churches just as Blackburn had discovered and in 1805 established the Spring Place Missionary School. The missionary school began with mostly young children but later branched out to have some adults in attendance as well, hoping to learn English. In 1819 Spring Place had 2 to 14 children in regular attendance and by 1830 they had 32 adults and 31 children. [8]

Cyrus Kingsbury was the next large player in Christianizing the Cherokees. Kingsbury saw the success of Blackburn and Gambold’s missionary schools and decided to create some of his own. In 1816 Kingsbury, created the Chickamauga Missions School on a 25 acre plantation. The Chickamauga school was a small portion of Kingsbury’s plans to aid in the education of the Cherokees. Kingsbury created what became known as the Brainerd Missions. Brainerd held numerous schools of different branches. Taloney was created in 1819; Creek Path in 1820; Hightower, Willstown, and Haweis in 1823; Candy’s Creek in 1824; New Echota in 1827; Amohee in 1831; and finally Redclay and Running Waters were created in 1835. All of the schools worked together but separately to educate Native Americans living in different parts of Cherokee country during the time period.

In addition to the Moravians and Presbyterian, there were also the Baptists and the Methodists that came to the Cherokee country. The Baptist associations came into Cherokee country from Georgia around 1816. The Baptists and Methodists did not set up any schools; however, they did preach and teach to the Cherokees. The Methodists came into the Cherokee country from Tennessee. The Methodists was under the Conference of Tennessee, directed by William M. Mahan. They set up four schools and had all of them established by 1828. The Baptists and the Methodists found the aid of the Cherokee Phoenix to be very helpful because they could distribute scriptures as well as hymns in both English and Cherokee. [9]

The missionary efforts were great by 1829, it is recorded that there were 1,028 Methodist Converts. The Methodists were the most effect in reaching out the Cherokees first. By 1831, it has been recorded that there were 192 communicants, 120 Baptists, and 74 Moravian converts.[10] According to Gulick in 1960, “There are as far as we know 17 churches.” 11 Baptists, 1 Episcopal, 3 Holiness, 2 Methodists, and the Roman Catholic and Mormon services are held in a community building, all of which would not have been made possible had it not been for the early missionaries that began working toward Christianizing the Cherokees in the early 1800s. Four of the 11 churches that Gulick found still offered church services in the native Cherokee Language. [11]

For the most part, Eastern Cherokee churches preach of the sinfulness and evilness of mankind along with the necessity of the belief in Christ so that the Native American can be saved and escape hells fire. With non-Indian church goers there is an intense emotion. The Native Americans, on the other hand, remain impassive and their social behavior does not typically express emotions during church services. However, they are accepting of the emotional responses of the non-Indian church goers and have grown to expect the outburst. The texts are sometimes sung in the Cherokee language, but they are sung to tunes derived from non-Indian backgrounds. [12]

In conclusion, the Cherokees may have been unwilling to accept Christianity and churches at the beginning, but they finally allowed missionaries to begin creating schools in 1799. To the Cherokees the schools were a necessity for their children to be able to live a civilized life amongst the Europeans. It was easier for them to realize the benefits of education than it was for them to see the benefits of Christianity. However, through the blending of Christianity and education the missionaries were able to accomplish both the education of Native Americans and the converting of Cherokees to Christianity. After 1816, missionaries built a network of boarding schools which catered primarily to the highly acculturated Cherokee leadership of the early 19th century. [13]The progress was great, acceptance was wide spread, and children as well as adults began to attend. The converting of Christianity grew and exists today in the Cherokee Nation. Today many people still view the Native Americans as being uncivilized and heathen, but in reality they have been quick to accept Christianity and are no different than the non-Indian American’s.  

Bibliography

Baird, W. David. “Cherokees and MIssionaries, 1789-1839.” The Western Historical Quarterly (Western Historical Quarterly, Utah State University ) 16, no. 2 (1985): 191.

Collins, Linton. “The Activities of the Missionaries Among the Cherokees .” The Georgia Historical Quarterly (Georgia Historical Society ) 6, no. 4 (1922): 285-322.

Corman, Catherine. “Writing Indians: Literacy, Christianity, and Native Community in Early America .” The William and Mary Quarterly (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ) 58, no. 3 (2001): 742-745.

Garrett, J.T. and Garret, Michael. Medicine of the Cherokee: The Way of Right Relationship . Santa Fe, New Mexico : Bear and Company Publishing , 1996.

Gulick, John. Cherokees at the Crossroads . Chapel Hill , North Carolina : University of North Carolina , 1960.

Kilpatrick, Alan. “A Note on Cherokee Theological Concepts .” American Indian Quarterly (University of Nebraska Press) 19, no. 3 (1995): 385-405.

Malone, Henry. Chrokees of the Old South . Atlanta , Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, 1956.

McNally, Michael. “The Practice of Native American Christianity .” Church History (Cambridge University Press) 69, no. 4 (2000): 834-859.

Perdue, Theda. “Cherokees and Missionaries, 1789-1839.” American Indian Quarterly (University of Nebraska Press ) 9, no. 2 (1985): 188-191.

[1] Garrett, Medicine of the Cherokee, page 110.

[2] Garrett, Medicine of the Cherokee, Page 116.

[3] Malone, Cherokees of the Old South: A People in Transition, Page 91.

[4] From a Note on Cherokee Theological Concepts, the article points out how without a written language the Europeans had great difficulties in communicating with the Native Americans who spoke mostly in their own language.

[5] The Cherokee Phoenix was originally called the Cherokee Press at New Echota and that led to the Phoenix which became a National Newspaper by 1828.

[6] Malone, Cherokees of the Old South: A people in Transition, page 114.

[7] Extracted from a journal Article, A Note on Cherokee Theological Concepts.

[8] Malone, Cherokees of the Old South: A people in transition, page 95.

[9] Collins, Activities of the Missionaries among the Cherokee, page 18.

[10] Malone, Cherokees of the Old South: A people in transition, Page 117.

[11] Gulick, Cherokees at the Crossroads, page 36.

[12] Gulick, Cherokees at the Crossroads, pages 118-119 goes into great detail describing the non-Indian verses the Indian churches.

[13] Perdue, Cherokees and Missionaries. 

There are many theories about after death experiences.  One is the theory of the door.  It is said that after we die, each of us has our own door, and if we take the right one, we go to heaven.  However, if we take the wrong door, we end up somewhere else, some say limbo, some purgatory, and some say another dimension all together.

Another theory is the one of the nearing light.  A light so bright and peaceful that it washes all worry and strife away.  Many that have had a near death experience claim to have seen this light.  Not saying whether it’s true or not, but it does give hope as to what’s on the other side.

Some say if you die and go to hell, after so many centuries in Hell, your a recruited as a demon and allowed among the ranks.  This theory is the hardest to prove, but it does leave much to the imagination.  But anything is  possible within paranormal or supernatural theories.

Another theory is that our essence stays with our bodies in our graves until the Second Coming.  Just docile and dormant waiting to be allowed into paradise.  This is one of the less appealing theories.

Yet another theory is that we leave our bodies and wander the Earth until the End of Days or until our “unfinished business” is finally finished.  That is a theory on its own, “unfinished business” keeps us earthbound.

Those crazy questions that keep you up at night such at night. We may not know why we think of these things, but some just can’t help it. When you lay in bed and you aren’t tired, it’s quite, and your mind begins to race. The one question that many people probably think about is, “what happens when you die?” The possibility of ever finding out the answer is impossible, or is it? Some television shows talk to people who “died” and came back. Now whether their claims are real or not we just don’t know. The one thing that produces doubt is that fact that it’s on television; as a result, the whole show could be scripted. Scientist are trying to discover if living things have “soul”. If there is no afterlife, or even a soul. Do we look at eternal darkness? It’s just a disturbing thought. To realize we spend most of our lives working, going to school, or whatever to basically pass away at the end of our life. Now that’s something to be depressed about since we could be spending that time to travel the world, or do our bucket list. Sadly to do those things require money; therefore, we need to work. Another question that may keep someone up at night is that space goes on forever. That may seem like a silly question, but the fact that space goes on forever. Well the human mind can’t comprehend something that goes on forever. For something such as space to be as vast as it is and we’re the only people in the universe is simply impossible. There would have to be alien life somewhere out there. Have you wondered how everything is so perfect? For example how the earth is in the habitual zone of our star. It would make you think that there has to be a creator of us, but sadly in the word’s of Steven Hawkin ” there was nothing before the big bang even time itself; therefore, there is no God.” We are who we are and we can believe whatever we want to believe in. We’ll all find out eventually. 

Fear is natural, and although I have had no natural fears for my entire life, not that I have a wife and kids, I feel some semblance of fear about losing them or not being able to save them if they need me to.

Fear is an ally, it is what makes you faster, stronger, mind sharper, and react more precisely.  Fear is not to shut out, it is to be embraced.  Fear is definite when you don’t understand the uncertain.  Death is a certainty, yet everyone fears it, but everyone dies.  It isn’t the act that gives everyone fear, it is the not knowing what will happen after death.

There is no reason to be fearful of death, it is just the next step on the evolutionary life cycle before we enter a new life and a new plane of existence.

Fear is also inevitable, able to be controlled, unlike death.  It is this control that saparates us from the rest of nature, instinctively.

Fear is good, and it is bad.  Without control, we cannot live, we cannot live without being in control.

How Spirit Adapter or Possession Can Make an Impact – Accomplished Lives, Afterlife & Transvestites

The additional has to do with spirit attachment. This is when

a body of the adverse gender (or one of the aforementioned gender

with a same-sex orientation), who has larboard its concrete body

upon death, attaches to the being and influences that person,

sometimes from a actual adolescent age. Added on this accountable can

be begin in The Unquiet Dead by Edith Fiore. The author

lists adapter affection and provides a simple Software in

the aback of the book to advice abolish exceptionable attachments.

Whether or not you can about-face your admiration to cross-dress

depends aloft the could could cause and the afterlife associated with it.

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the could could cause of your desire. Once you become added acquainted of

the airy causes it may be easier to acceleration aloft them, or

at atomic be added alone from them.

Since animal acclimatization is accompanying to the subject, we’d like

to point out that a bi or gay acclimatization is usually clearly

reflected in a person’s absolute astrometry and

numerology charts. Thus, based on our research, sexual

orientation is something you’re built-in with. Your soul, not

your personality, chooses it, forth with abounding added partsof your life, afore birth.

We all know about it, whether it exists or not. We know of ghosts and reincarnated entities, and we all have some knowledge of the idea that we might experience afterlife upon death.
Philosophers and priests have thought about it for as long as thinking man has existed. Alternatively, scientists have tried their best to sweep it under a thread-bare carpet. So what is the reality of afterlife?

POLITICS AND MORALITY
The first thing to realize about afterlife is that it has been quite useful in the life we class as ‘living.’ Medieval Christendom split Afterlife into Heaven and Hell, and applied transgressing The Ten Commandments to eternal redemption.

This was a means of social and moral control, using superstition to scare people into obedience. A similar concept exists in the east, where karma is a moral imperative towards good so as not to be reincarnated in a lower status next time.
Christianity went so far as to debar mere mortals from experiencing evidence of afterlife in life. To do so was to be Christ-like, and only Jesus was such. Hence, those who claimed communion with entities in life were classed as ‘evil’, dealing with the Devil. In this way, Christianity attempted to banish paganism and the occult.

INDIVIDUAL PROBLEMS
In the above, we can see that Afterlife is a useful system of control, guaranteeing its survival as a concept within religious society. But today, science and individuality has banished the idea and classed it as nonsense.

Individuality has to ignore Afterlife, for it implies something above the individual. But individuals continue to form societies and cultures. Our place in a society is defined by cultural interpretation. Hence, there is something above the individual.
In light of this, could we argue that culture, or even our species, could be a continuing communal entity in its own right? If we are prepared to accept such a thing – and history itself shows a form of continuance above the individual – then we begin the philosophical step towards the idea of continuance after life.

WHAT WE KNOW SURVIVES
We do actually know that much of ‘us’ does survive death. For instance, there are memories of us in other people’s minds. If naturally buried, our organic body decays and released nutrients for renewal of nature.

If we go even deeper into the ‘construction’ of life we are fundamentally an electrical vibration of the subatomic field – an astral body, as it were. Here, the particles that make up the ‘vibration’ are identical to similar particles throughout the universe. And guess what – they survive our death.
There are ideas in fringe physics that this field forms an ‘information universe’. In other words, the information available to the universe is within its construction, which would logically include its history. Does this constitute a form of ‘survival’?

WHERE IS CONSCIOUSNESS?
One of the great metaphysical debates revolves around the location of consciousness. It is said to reside in the brain, but if information is in the subatomic field, could what we class as the mind be simply an individual segment of this universal consciousness?

A materialist would class this as ridiculous. We can track certain brain functions, and are aware of their existence in the brain. To which I would ask: could the brain be simply analogous to a computer? If so, we haven’t yet found the software.
Many believe the Near Death Experience shows evidence of our personal consciousness going to the universal – in this case, down a dark tunnel where a light is met, and a decision taken whether you shall live or die.

DEATH AND REBIRTH
I’m not sure whether this is evidence of survival, but certainly a strange phenomenon occurs within the experience. Indeed, research has shown that even a deep faint can include imagery of what is culturally accepted as Afterlife.

This is particularly interesting as early tribal ritual revolved around hysterical ceremony, leading to the deep faint of a shaman-like individual. In the faint he is said to visit the Afterlife and return with knowledge thereof.
The shaman can be seen to have believed the faint involved a ‘death’, followed by rebirth upon awakening. This process actually formed the central proof of Afterlife within mythology. Yet realistically we can argue this is a symbolic, psychologically induced Afterlife rather than the real thing.

EVIDENCE OF SURVIVAL
In the above we can see the possibility of a ‘symbolic’ Afterlife, sculpted by impressions of a particular culture, which we went on to believe was ‘real.’ But nonetheless, it could have formed the basic proofs that led to religion and spirituality.

Other ‘proofs’ of Afterlife are said to include sightings of ghosts, mediumistic talents and evidence of reincarnation. However, again, we can argue that all this evidence can be found in the known psychological anomalies of the human mind.
Indeed cryptomnesia (the ability to remember obscure facts), multiple personality, hallucination and other mechanisms can adequately explain evidence of such survival. For further information on these mechanisms, posts can be found by clicking Paranormal UFO Occult at the bottom of this post.

TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING
This said, there are problems with our understanding of life and the universe that are not adequately addressed by science. For instance, it is known that the body exists as a co-ordinated lifeform, but it also exists as a congregation of cells, etc; and at its fundamental level, as an electrical vibration, as already mentioned.

Science accepts this, but is hazy when it comes to the relationship between each of these levels. But surely, if one leads to another, then interaction between the three levels must take place.
This logical assumption tells us that, if the information universe is a reality, then somehow it must connect to the conscious life form – i.e. us. Hence, if consciousness is in the information universe, we must ask: does it die upon death of the body? Or does it continue as some form of existence?

FUTURE SCIENCE
We are not at the stage of knowledge where we can answer. This is mainly because we are not asking the right questions, which should be: Do we live in an information universe or not? Is our ‘electrical vibration’ related to us or not?

A negative answer to either of these questions leaves us disconnected from the rest of existence, which is ridiculous. A positive answer leaves room for the tantalizing existence of an Afterlife of some kind.
And seeing that it would imply a connection between ‘us’ and the universe, then knowledge of this survival would be in the information universe. So therefore, somewhere, we would be aware of this.
So who knows, maybe SOME of those ghosts, communications and possessions are from somewhere else after all. Once we have discounted the fraudulent, spurious and delusional, of course

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When I was ten I my grandfather died. I didn’t really know the man, but his face, with his red nose and rheumy eyes, is still clear in my memory. I remember the awakening in my young brain at the thought of death. What does it really mean? Not only to the dead, but the living as well? Where did my grandfather go after his physical body was no longer there?

I helped my father spread his ashes on his rural Saskatchewan property. That was my first caress with death. That is when the questions began.

Flash forward sixteen years.  The next time death knocked on my door was unexpected.  My husband had been killed in a freak motor-vehicle accident.  He was 33 years old, and left me shattered and weak, with two little girls to support. After the shock, the utter disbelief and denial, I once again found myself thinking of that darkness we all are heading towards. Where was my husbands spirit and fire that he had displayed so richly in life?  It was torturous to think that he was no more, that he could just stop existing. 

I chose to believe instead that the energy which made him who he was, some people may call it his soul, did not die. That none of our souls die as our physical bodies do.  A coping mechanism? Perhaps it is, but that is the question: do we believe so stoutly in the afterlife because as living beings with a living consciousness, it would be unacceptable, in fact, unimaginable to think of death as our true ending? An ending to thought, to energy, to life itself?  Are we so desperate to imagine that our ending is only the beginning? 

The undisputed fact is we can never truly know what happens to us as we leave these vessels for our next journey. There are 21 grams that leave our bodies when we die. Maybe that is the weight of the human soul escaping to a better realm where we look down on our loved ones with omnipotent love and satisfaction… It seems we will all have to wait and see.

Sally Morgan, her website tells you, is a very successful psychic, having written three books and into a third TV series called Psychic sally on the Road, but is it all a bit of a confidence trick at heart?

It was reported that, during a live show at the Grand Canal Theatre in Dublin, on Sunday September 11th, an audience member had been impressed by the accuracy of readings made by Sally during the first half of the show.

That changed when, from her seat at the very back of the theatre, on the fourth level, she heard, through a nearby small window, the voice of a man relating things that the on-stage psychic was repeating only moments later.

Obviously, this unwitting witness reasoned, the man in question must have been was feeding Sally information, because the comments the so-called medium were coming it had a very familiar ring. Within minutes, an embarrassed theatre staff member – realizing that the man was being overheard – closed the window, blocking out that voice.

Had, the question must be asked, the information being imparted been gathered from conversations with audience members before the show? Psychic on-artists are known to do this, and the voice of this witness was not the only one raised.

Theatre general manager, Stephen Faloon said that was heard were two staff members talking, and of course Sally Morgan Enterprises also denied information feeding ever takes place during shows.

These so-called mediums had their heyday in Victorian times, frauds being exposed doing little to lessen popularity, many self-professed psychics sincerely believing that they have powers.

Frauds use cold reading, convincing strangers that the psychics have knowledge, when all they have done is to employ clever language, acute observation and intelligent guesswork.

These, coupled with the ability to make statements that can be interpreted as more specific than they really were, allow the skilled practitioner to produce impressive results. The moral issues are simple enough, in that the deception of vulnerable people, however committed, is shameful, even if some apparent comfort is given to those people through this medium

It may well be the case that Sally Morgan is not deliberately conning her audience with fraudulent techniques at all, and is genuine in the comfort that she brings to people, but at the end of the day, it is all a matter of clever manipulation. Tickets for her sell-out Dublin show each cost 40 euros, and both books and DVDs sold well, by all accounts, so she certainly makes a good living.

The person who complained may well never bother with such nonsense again, but they will, I am very much afraid, be in the minority, for however much of a confidence trick such events might be, there are enough gullible and rapturous believers to keep the Sally Morgans of this world employed for years to come, mores the pity.

A short explanation of Science;

Science isn’t just gathering evidence of something and calling it true. For something to be science, all the facts of a situation must be gathered, put into place, and reproduced. This usually involves several tests to ensure the outcome is the same everytime. Since it isn’t possible(at this time) to travel back to the beginning of time and simply verify God’s existence, we can’t prove or disprove the validity of God or religion itself. As I’ve just said, we would have to be able to recreate that scenerio probably several times for it to be considered science at all, and it would have to end in the same or a very similar manner for it to be called scientifically proven.

A short explanation of Reason;

Reason is typically when we take the evidence presented to us by something, or the general clues we have so far and make purely logical decision to believe it or not.

If you know there are 50 marbles, and someone takes 20, reason will tell you there are 30 left because of the evidence you’ve seen thus far.

Reason Vs Science;

Science and reason are two very different things, and while they have many similarities they shouldn’t be confused with eachother in any way. In the previous example of marbles, reason was what you used to come to that conclusion. However, that doesn’t make it science. For that to be called science the situation would have to be replicated to prove the outcome is the same. Reason can be used to form a hypothesis which you may then test and prove.

Example of Reason being confused for Science;

Let’s take evolution for example, we’ll go with the evolution of humans. This is commonly called ’science’ though it shouldn’t bear that name. Until we can find a way to test this theory without contamination of any outside influence we as humans didn’t have, this can’t be called science. Reasoning might tell you that we found these fossils from different time periods, cave paintings, whatever it might be. But that lays in the hands of reason, and is nothing more than an assumption for the time being. I’m not arguing whether or not evolution valid, but rather, whether it is science.

Science and Religion touching hands;

While there are many inconsistancies between the events depicted in various tellings of many different religions, and their less free spirited cousin named Science, that doesn’t make the two mortal enemies as so many people think. It’s true, we can pick something out of The Bible for example and call it out by things we now know, let’s take the great flood for example.

Did every species of animal live within walking distance of Noah’s house? Reason says no, science says let’s find out.

Is it possible to build a ship large enough to carry all the species of animals on, out of wood? Both reason and science seem to agree that this would most certainly fail.

Would Earth be survivable if its entire surface were flooded? Reason says this amount of water would cause you to drown by breathing alone, as the level of water vapor in the air would be massive. But until this is replicated it can not be disproved under the name of science. (Let’s not go too far on this one, scientists. Please don’t test it. I enjoy breathing.)

Conclusion;

While reason may say religion is unlikely to some, the reason of others would say different as with nearly all things. We can’t recreate all the events mentioned by most religions and so it wouldn’t be proper to scientifically question their validity. Many things in religion have indeed been proven wrong, but one can say that’s because in these religions long life spans man has altered their stories. But even that is reason, and out of the bounds of science. There’s no need for this argument as both can get along, and neither fully disagrees with the other. Allow them to stay as distant cousins, who don’t need to be involved with eachother until Reason invites them over for a drink.

Thanks for reading.

Still in life there are disturbed moments.Life is not what follows always a linear upward curve.It may be up and down,rotating and spiralling type.It may sometimes confuse you,sometimes flatter you, and may sometimes bring you down.

People are living their lives in their own way,whether they like it or not.They accept things as they  come. They become satisfied with as they have nothing else to choose from. It is better that way,than to suffer all through the life.When something is not in your controls, what else you could do,perhaps this thing and that thing or nothing at all.

Life is whirlwind kind of situation. It keeps you moving,rotating round and round and may even through you out of the rim,off the track.You may get lost.Your consciousness may be gone partly or even completely.But you still want to live,and survive ,anchoring and grabbing something,whatever that is.Because you want to live,you want to survive,you want to accomplish,you want to relish,you want to enjoy,you want to give and take.You want to do many many things, just in your life.In this life only.As you do not know if there is anything afterwards!