Waxing Poetically: Addressing Culture with a Twist of Poetry

While Perusing for ideas for my blog the other day I came across something on Youtube called “The God Delusion Index.” This is a quiz given by an atheist to determine how delusional a person is by the fervency of his/her spiritual beliefs. After taking the satirical quiz, I score in the range of mildly (and according to the quiz, healthily delusional). It got me thinking though of all the atheist arguments I’ve heard over the years like, “If there’s a God, why is there evil?” “How come God doesn’t heal amputees,” and “If marriage is overseen by God, how come half of all marriages end in divorce?” Then it occurred to me that this type of faulty logic is part of something I like to call the “God is magical” fallacy.

The “God is magical” fallacy is the idea that believers actually think there is an omnipotent force waving a magic wand-like thing ready to grant wishes like Aladdin’s genie. Better yet, some atheists will say that believing in God is like believing fairies or giant angels with harps who live in a big, white castle and go bowling during thunder storms. Because they (atheists) believe that believers believe this crap, they look upon religion and faith as silly irrational, nonfunctional and irrelevant. George Carlin once described people’s belief in God as a belief in God an invisible man who lives in the sky. In light of this view, I’d have agree that that view does seem quite f****Ing kooky!

However, what is to be said about believing that like can have purpose and direction? What can be said of the fact that good and evil do as a fact exist in most people’s minds? What is to be debated about the Big Bang Theory which assumes life did have a creation point and beyond that the first law of thermodynamics states that matter cannot be created or destroyed but only changed? Is this a natural form of afterlife?

I personally give reasons and questions such as the above for my personal belief in God, but atheists I talk to never seem to consider a God that might work within nature rather than against it. So, I say to them, “The God I believe in didn’t intend you to regenerate your amputated limbs and that same God gave you the free will to choose good or evil, to make yourself sick or healthy or to be a good spouse or not.” I say to them “When I pray it’s about knowing where I stand with the good part of the Universe and it’s never about winning the lottery”. The Universe doesn’t run well on selfishness.”

Beyond that stuff I don’t know if the religious teachings are literal or allegorical, who wrote what verse or who said it. The only thing I know for sure is that I see objective truth in my faith and I will never lose any of that truth for as long as I live. That, My Friends is how I believe in God. No has been able to deny me my logic yet.

Until next time… Wax the best you can!

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