Well, I seem to be thinking a lot about religion lately. Probably because it’s such an important ingredient in humankind’s collective existence. The other day I was talking to my father about religion and its relation with the so-called God, if there is any relationship at all. He said there’s a strong relationship. I asked him for the basis of such a belief. He said the idea of religion sprung out from the collective belief of an almighty, an enigmatic entity, much more powerful than a man could ever be. But since man could not generally think in empty spaces, there had to be a means to understand this God. Something man could see, something he could recognize. Nature was God because it gave you life. And religion, taking a lot from nature, must have been thus created. So there, he said, lies the relation. If there was no belief in the Almighty, there would have been no religion.
That is a relation alright. But I guess it just about ends there. Because though man was trying to form a structure of such an Almighty, he was after all only a man. He was trying to immortalize the sense of such a Being, being somewhere in existence (or everywhere, whatever you like), but all I guess he ended up in doing is quite ostensible, more now than ever before – he divided the power, and created several Gods . And that is my biggest argument – man was trying to form a means of understanding the Almighty, and he didn’t consider him mighty enough to be in existence all alone? (S)He, the God, ended up dividing labour, and charge, amongst lesser Gods. A lesser God? I know, isn’t that a paradox?
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