An Agnostic's Prayer

Let me start with a cliché. There are two types of people in the world.

Yes, just two, not three, in this case. There are people who believe that there is God and those who don’t. And, there are two types of people in each of these two. Among the believers, there are those who believe that God has told them what to do in life, and those who believe that God only regulates the right and wrong in this world. The non-believers are split over how strongly they feel about the non-existence of God, namely, the Atheist and the Agnostic. I guess I don’t have to say which bin I am sitting in.

I have absolutely no problems with anyone’s beliefs unless they end up screwing the world for the rest of us. The beliefs may end up screwing that person’s life, but then again, he/she asked for it. Until recently, I did not think that there was any way that someone could be misled into thinking that the supposed architect of our world actually wants us to destroy it. But then again, I didn’t know how stupid this world can be. If I were to pinpoint one thing that has the most impact on our lives, I would say it is the stupidity of others. It defines the level of development in our countries, and in many ways, the happiness and peace of mind in our lives.
Unfortunately, nowadays, it doesn’t stop at that, and starts to threaten our existence itself. The ironic thing about this situation is that our lives are in the hands of people who have been “asked” by a person in their dreams to create nightmares in our lives.

The first time we realize that there is a subject called philosophy is when we hear the question “What is the reason for your existence?” Ask an evolutionary biologist, and he will give you the scientific answer to that question. Ask a non-stupid person, and he will tell you it’s for having fun. Pose the same question to the devil incarnate with the psychic dreams, and the answer would go something like this. We should do as the person in the dream says, and then, we will be blessed with pleasures after we die. I have just one fucking question to this person: How do you know all this is true? For a fact, you can have a great time in this life. You don’t even know what happens after you die. How can you believe a person in your dreams without any shred of evidence? Even if we excuse that mind-numbing hole in your theory, how can you kill fellow humans who have allowed you to live long enough to have that dream in the first place?

Richard Dawkins argues in his book, “The God Delusion”, that God doesn’t exist, and how every aspect of our life can be scientifically explained. Even if we could not answer all the questions related to life, that is no basis for accepting the “explanations” that religious books provide. I agree with his theories, but since I cannot and do not want to spend the time even if I could, I don’t really care if there exist believers in this world. My own theory is that God was created as a means of assuring people that justice will be done, and that they should not lose hope.

Since the people who want to kill us refuse to listen to Richard Dawkins and others who explain the fallacies in arguments put forward by “messengers” of God, there is I guess only one option left for all of us. Pray to that imaginary person who appears in their heads, and hope he listens to our prayers and doesn’t say anything stupid to them. Because if the person in their dream does say something stupid, we can kiss our happiness goodbye.