Where does order come from? Is it created? Does it exist outside of time and space? What is its nature? I do not believe that these are unknowable questions. I think we can.
However, the first step to rationally figuring out the reality of an existent order is to put aside the nonsensical mythologies of yesteryear. The major religions of the world were concocted at a time when we had almost no scientific knowledge. They were our guesses in the dark about what might have created us. With the benefit of hindsight and what little scientific advances we have made, they now appear to be comically bad guesses.
They were adopted because they provided some degree of hope in an otherwise cold and unforgiving world. They were sustained because the human child is particularly susceptible to being programmed at an early age.
The fact that a great percentage of us happen to believe in the specific religion we were born into is a testament to the power of brainwashing. What were the chances that you happen to be born into just the right religion? Could it be instead that you believe what you were born into is the best answer for universal questions because that is what you were brainwashed to believe ever since you were born?
The fact that e=mc2 does not translate into woman must have been created from the rib of man. In fact, it takes a great deal of brainwashing to make that entirely irrational leap of faith.
What I am saying here is that there is a logical reason to have faith. But there can be no faith without reason. Without reason how could we determine what to have faith in? And when you use reason, you cannot justify any of the organized religions. Ironically, it's time to get beyond religion, so that we can focus on God.
Seems right to me. To me, God has to be something beyond a giant man in the sky who will burn me with fire for eternity if I disobey him. That's on par with Zeus hurtling lightning bolts at cringing Greeks.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
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