I have been meaning to write this post for a week now. Last week my room-mate, my sublet-room-mate and I were talking, you know, late night chit-chats. Somehow the conversation steered towards religion. And my room-mate, being as witty as she is, used the phrase "allowing more power to God" while describing the difference between detheist and agnostic person (basically detheist "allow" more power to God than agnostics do). Her brother is a Theosophy major. So she has an active interest in the subject.
Anyway the term allowing God more power got my thinking gear active. Isn't thats what all the religious beliefs or non-beliefs are about? How much power you will allow an imaginary figure, namely God, to have on you and your life? In case of an atheist it comes to allowing God to exist or not. Its ironic, isn't it? The believers say that its God who allow us to exist while in reality its us who allow God to exist. Its us who allow the amount of power He/She has even though the believers believe that He/She is the mightiest.
Oh, the beautiful ironies of life!
Richa, a very interesting thought! I believe we like to assign as much power to the unknown as suits our purpose -- ghosts can sometimes just appear in your dreams, while sometimes they can take multiple human forms, have superhuman powers, etc. That makes the story convenient, doesn't it? :)
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Agreed. I guess concept of God is more for personal convenience than anything else.
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Nice post. Just by arguing about the existence of god, we kind of acknowledge that he/she exits, and we are merely trying to deny its existence, something we have been brought up on.. There are a lot of ifs and buts associated, but hell, someday later :)
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