Does God exist?
Monday, January 1st, 2007Professor Richard Dawkins is becoming more and more famous as an outspoken atheist. He presented and wrote the documentary “The Root of All Evil?” and recently published the book “The God Delusion” which is a huge success on Amazon. No matter if you believe in Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism or Hinduism this might help you to understand on what atheism is based on and why they believe what they believe. I think its not dangerous to believe in something, it only becomes a problem if you think you are 100% sure. Even Richard Dawkins says he can’t be sure that there isn’t a God.
The problem with the God question is how do you define God. Since there isn’t a clear definition it’s pretty pointless to argue about this matter. If we define God as the creator of the universe and everything in it then we should not ask whether God exists but what God is. Because by this definition God exists since the universe exists.
No matter if you are a religious person who does Koran or Bible studies or not we should come to terms with the fact that there are no certainties. Even if the Catholic Church doesn’t like to hear it, the Pope isn’t infallible and many things in the Bible are contradictory, cruel and don’t make sense at all. But then again hardline atheist need to understand that religion is not just about the god question but also about moral guidelines and being part of a community.
Another famous book by Richard Dawkins is the “The Selfish Gene” which Dawkins published about 30 years ago and has been equally successful like his newest book but has nothing to do with Atheism or Agnosticism.