Science vs. God

The title subconsciously begs the big question: is there a God? Or are we simply running around without anyone watching over us? If you’re alive and are old enough to comprehend any semblance of religion, you have probably asked yourself this question a time or two. Those who study various religions, both past and present will tell you that throughout history, humans have commonly given broad conceptualization to things that they have never been able to explain. Obviously, the concept of God has always been rather hard to define by the everyday sort of person, which is why we have always left it up to the church.

Whether you’re Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, or Orthodox, by definition these various faiths all worship the same God. The cause for there being a variety of faiths can be attributed to various schisms throughout history based on power and doctrinal divergence. It’s simple as that. Even before the modern Christianity movement that took place in the beginning of the first millennia, there were other faiths, which included paganism (those who worship inanimate objects) or Zoroastrianism (those who worshipped a “prophet” of sorts named Zoroaster). As one can tell, these religions and many others have lost out in the natural order of human history for various reasons. But why?

“The Church” or what is now the modern Catholic Church did away with paganism by attaching brutal stigmas to it, i.e. barbarism, etc… Pagans still exist today, but in areas of the world that are remote and are out of the reach of modern society. Oddly enough, the stars that symbolize the rank of general were always seen as a symbol of evil in paganism; I find that ironic, which is why I mention it. Anyways, it was the Egyptians, Romans, and the Greeks that gave us the modern concept of God, as they were polytheistic or believed in many Gods. The Egyptians for example had various Gods that they believed to control natural phenomena such as the weather and crop growth.

It was the early Christians that gave us the monotheistic view of God or the one all powerful God. Even though we live in a modern age where science has trumped many aspects of religion, billions still believe. A common area of discourse is over our very existence on this planet. Religion tells us that God created the world and us in 7 days. Science tells us that we are here because of the “Big Bang” or the idea that the universe was created in one giant burst of energy. The products of that giant burst eventually came together to create Earth and the life on it (long story short). My point is that religion has crafted our current view of God over time and they haven’t exactly forthcoming about it.

Religion is firmly aware of science and have has gone to extreme lengths in the past to disprove it to maintain their stranglehold on the masses. In the basement of the Vatican, there are archives that document human history over the past two thousand years. Yet, the Vatican has always been guarded in allowing access to the archives, most of which has never seen the eyes of an outsider. Only the pope has access to these archives. Do you think they are hiding something? For example, our common visualization of Jesus is of a white man, but in reality, Jesus was probably Middle Eastern in descent and looked like a common, dark skinned Middle Eastern. Even the above picture of God painted by Michaelangelo on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel isn’t exactly representative of humanity.

To me the whole concept of religion and God has been skewed by human finagling over the centuries. Even what you see in the Bible today was decided in 325 in the first ecumenical council; do you think they were unbiased? I don’t think God showed up to deliver the final manuscript in person. For all we know, we are a bunch of psychotic apes floating around through space on a tiny ball of various gasses that allows us and every creature on this planet to survive. On the other hand, maybe we were strategically put here by a super natural being for some reason or another. If I knew the answer to those questions, I’d probably be God or some sort of billionaire prophet. This is a question that is subjective to the individual or “faith,” but isn’t it a fantastic source of discussion and war?

Love is War

Our most basic and yet most vital instinct embedded deep within our brains in concerned with one thing and one thing only: procreating or ensuring the survival of the species. Even though we do not know it, when we see an individual of the opposite sex, we are sizing them up or rather, we are curious as to if they would suffice as a future mate. Granted, all of that is subjective, as we all look for different characteristics while eye raping an individual. During the era of the caveman thousands upon thousands of years ago, this process was much the same, but getting to the point of “getting the job done” was a lot easier, to be blunt. Fact is, our brains were smaller then, and hence we never had the capacity to think too much into the matter. But sadly that has changed; love has turned into the new World War between the sexes or what I like to call, “the game.”

Being that I am alive and am a man, it is sufficient to assume that I have “struck out” a time or ten thousand in my day (sober and inebriated). Through all of these manic collapses, I have come to the conclusion, as has every other male on this planet, that women somehow evolved beyond us in regards to controlling when this “action” occurs (I blame Midol and that godforsaken sitcom, “Sex and the City”). This so called “game” consists of many aspects and rules, which I have constructed from my vast experiences with the opposite sex. These rules include, (1) Don’t talk to a man first, (2) Don’t stare at a man or talk too much, (3) Don’t call him, or rarely return his calls, (4) Don’t accept a Saturday night date after Wednesday, (5) Always end the date first, (6) Don’t see him more than once or twice a week, (7) Lie consistently, (8) Don’t discuss “the game” with your shrink, and (9) Don’t go “Dutch” on a date; make him pick you up.

Like most things in the world, there is a serious lack of logic in “the game.” This lack of logic either dumbfounds the guy or simply turns a guy off to the prospect of even talking to a woman. It is because of “the game” that my hypothesis that all women are bat shit crazy has been proven wrong and instead has been turned into a paradigm. Personally, I wouldn’t trust a woman who abides by the paradigm with my prodigy, much less a bean bag. For example, “Dutch dating” simply implies that the man should have to pay for everything (meals, flowers, etc…). If I totaled up the amount of capital that I have pissed away, err spent on women, I would be able to afford a supercharger for the true love of my life (funny how a complex machine makes me happy). As a matter of fact, I might just send out a few invoices later on to recoup my financial losses.

Now, if women were to discuss the paradigm known as “the game” in their weekly therapy sessions (they should all seek help if you ask me), this wouldn’t be a problem at all. But women cling to these rules like a sloth clings to a tree for dear life. I wouldn’t be a man if I didn’t admit that I have analyzed a “Cosmo” or two while on the throne and oddly enough, “the game” seems to be a key component to each and every issue. This my friends is why love is war; it is as if society has turned us into warring parties over nothing (Cold War). The Cold War could have very well spelled doom for everyone, much less the planet. I know that all we need right now is even more people to piss up the planet, but if “the game” continues, I fear that we shall go extinct as a species (I’m joking, but you get the point). Knock it off!