Why if all natural things in our world has been researched, and there is absolutely no evidence of any supernatural intervention.
What then would motivate a person to accept the fact that there is a Deity requiring his or her worship?
It should be straight forward but it is not!
Speaking from my experience.
The society where I was born into, has always led me to believe that there is a Christian God that loves me and will always protect me.
When you are exposed in such a way to religion, it is virtually impossible not to believe that there is a God who sees and knows all what you do, He knows your fears and He knows what makes you happy. He understands that you get frustrated but if you can endure you have earned the gift of patience. He knows your every thought.
God is, and you either follow his ways or you stray from it.
You know that there is a battle for your soul and that evil comes from the devil and good from God.
There is no question in your mind that one day you will be judged according to whatever you have done during your life time on earth. There will be punishment and there will be rewards that will last for eternity. This you know, the same way you know tomorrow the sun will rise, even though you have not seen it yet, it will happen.
You might even get “REBORN” praise sweet Jesus!!!
Now you take it to a completely new level. From a lost sinner who thought religion can save you, to a true child of God.
Jesus now becomes your friend and God, His blood protects you and you claim that right. For the first time you realize the importance of the fact that he gave his life so that you may have everlasting life!
You will be baptized in water and the glory of the lord will come down on you in the form of the Holy Spirit and you speak in tongues! Now everything must happen in double time.
Jesus is on his way to gather his bride, time is few and money is something you should give in order to receive.
Anything that you could waste money on has its own demon, the more you squander the less they get.......
This is where the deaf hear and the dumb speak, where the lame shall walk and the blind shall see!! Hallelujah. God can unfortunately not replace lost limbs, but that don’t mater, it serves you right to go and lose it anyway, don’t you know that your body is the temple of God?
Everything you do carries a “is it scriptural or not” tag.
You become a “Fool for Jesus” and the word must be spread that Jesus is coming and they need to repent, the world is lost we must work harder and give more.
And if the system can keep you at full throttle with prayer meetings and Bible study, outreaches and assemblies, this meeting and that gathering. And you don’t allow the devil to distract you.
Then the system has landed a diamond, your efforts will keep the system’s wheels turning and well oiled.
But if sanity prevails and you start to realize that the system is using you for someone to have his reward here on earth in the form of your money.
So if you are lucky enough to face reality and can overcome the guild that you bestow upon yourself, you may start to think could this all be just an illusion?
In my case I was telling a friend of the wonderful signs that I have witnessed God preformed healing the sick in church. He asked me a simple question, "Is that something that a good magician can replicate?" And I had to agree there was nothing that I saw that could also be just an illusion.
Now it would be very arrogant for anyone to say that there is no creation force out there, as nobody can give you evidence or absolute proof that something like a creator does not exist.
There are still so much that we just don’t know!
But I can say with total confidence that the religions of planet earth, are stories made up and accepted in ignorance and used to manipulate the majority of mankind.
My guess is rather than a six day creation story. It probably started like this:
In the beginning of man’s consciousness of his surroundings, he was unwise and uninformed, but his intellectual capacity has grown to the point of where he required things explained to him.
Most of us will never be satisfied with any event or phenomenon if it can’t be explained. We just need to know that someone knows.
So how do we deal with the things that we can’t explain? We blame it in the supernatural, be it a god, an ancestor the sun or the moon.
How terrifying it would have been to experience lightning for instance and no matter what, human kind just did not have the knowledge to explain it.
The sun arrives every morning on time and brings you warmth after a cold night, how easy will it be to say thank you to this object?
The most worshiped God has been created, the Sun!
The problem the spiritual leaders of today are facing is that information is spreading.
People communicate outside their groups and find that there are some interesting views out there.
Followers of specific doctrine are being exposed to other opinions and philosophies.
The Religious institutions have to keep on adapting their doctrine to fit in with the times.
There will always be someone that just has to believe that there is a God that loves him. That there are forces out there, good and evil.
Man need to blame his own mistakes on the devil and have a god that can forgive him. He needs to know that death is not the end!!!!!
And for that, he will do irrational acts of worship and sacrifice to a god.
He also needs a sense of belonging so he will do this thing with an acceptable group. This group will have a leader who will, for a fee, be too happy grant you the opportunity to have all of this.
Religion will mostly become a passive business as education levels pick up at global level.
Like any business you will find something for everyone. Some religious institutions will be like corporations and others like franchises. You will even find the owner of a small one who will drive his business with a passion not seen in the bigger ones. Lots of money will be spend on advertising and the competition for the right to be the one who supplies your spiritual needs will be high.
At the same time, if you start questioning your believe, it is a lot easier in these times to get answers without the bullshit. You will come into contact with other people who had enough of the lies and deceit.
You will also find that it does not matter what your religious believe are.
If you are an idiot you are an idiot.
You will find idiots all over, so do not get confused. Someone may have the same point of view about a topic as you but, this does not mean that he should now be your friend.
But you will also find people who don’t have to believe in hell or a promise of heaven to know the difference between good and bad. You will find people with integrity and responsibility who you would like to have as a friend or even as a peer, who do not believe in God.
You will experience that life becomes worth living when you are not doing it as a test, to have a better one after you have died. This life is it, only one.
Your abilities and talents comes from good genes, a healthy childhood and hard work, not because for some reason god has bestowed it on you, thank your parents and yourself.
Taking responsibility for your own actions and motives instead of blaming it on the forces of evil, really makes you reflect more on who and what you are, this helps you to develop yourself into the person that you would like to be.
Understanding that we as a species has evolved in a very short time from a primitive being to a modern people.
That we still have some of the primitive being’s basic instincts required for his survival as a wild animal.
This should explain a number of our silly habits that we cant explain with logic.
Understand that being godless is not an automatic indication of being evil. I'm not saying that all godless are not evil, man has a cunning ability to deceive.
But what I do say is that all people involved in religion, are deceived or they are deceiving, every thing in religion can be placed into these two categories.
Take time to consider what you worship, and remember that it requires effort from you to believe in yourself.
My Motto: Believe nothing you hear and only half of what you see!
That should protect you from about half the bullshit out there, but be prepared because somewhere, somehow someone will still take you for a ride!