The Abomination of Curiosity

I'm not one who will accept something without proof. I'm a cynic. It has to make sense. It has to pass the test of rationality. Sources that have been verified. Experiments that can be repeated.

This is why I often conflict with the people I love, and in other cases, just like. They want me to have faith. "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Hebrews 11:1

In other words, accepting it as truth without any evidence whatsoever. It becomes an abomination to ask questions.

In conversations with people on Facebook, I am often accused of hating God because I ask so many questions. I'm told I'm an atheist and headed straight to hell. That one day, "Every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord." But, they promise to pray for me.

During the Dark Ages and throughout history, it has been criminal, not only to question the Church, but to bring forth any ideas not supported by church doctrine. Many a man and woman have been burned at the stake, decapitated, and tortured for wanting to know more about the universe. And still yet, in these times today, we still hear displeasure and threats of eternal damnation, for asking simple questions.

I have found that the difference in most atheists and Christian fundamentalists is,  the former can't stop asking questions, while the latter does everything possible to stop the questions.

I can't help but join in the marvel of discovery that science of all disciplines brings to us daily. To find the universe is so huge and time so endless that our brains cannot comprehend it, brings far more wonder to me than a God who performed a magic trick creating the universe in a few days. And I find it incredibly arrogant to assume that all we can see and beyond was made for us here on Earth.

My parents, who still maintain a Christian faith, have found a way to combine their belief in science and their belief in God. They see God in everything. I see the universe and God as the same thing.

If you are afraid to question, that's because you are either afraid of the answers or of punishment in asking. If its either, you are in the wrong faith.

I have had many say that education will make them an atheist. That tells me you are just choosing to remain ignorant. Do you think God or Mother Nature gave us a brain to let it just shrivel away? I hope not.

Take a chance. Ask one question. Insist on more than just faith. The truth is often greater than fiction and it does not have to stop you from believing in a higher power. It just helps you realize just how amazing that greater power is.